Obama tells Leno he struggles with “the math stuff.” On Tonight Show, Woman asks Obama what school subject he has trouble helping his daughters with. OBAMA: “Well, the math stuff I was fine with up until about seventh grade.” Wonder what his good subject was? Was there a golf course at his school?
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They have words to help those that don't understand math, such as LANDSLIDE.
Once again, I don't believe him. He was fine with it up until about 7th grade? Really? A third grader could figure out his numbers don't work.
Besides, if you're not good with math, hire someone who is. So the entire Administration isn't clueless.
If you're not good at math , you shouldn't use numbers in what you have to say . The fact that most of the numbers he does quote , are largely just lies to cover up failed policies and flawed ideology ( junk thinking produces junk results ) leads me to believe he simply blaming his " bad math skills " instead of his fantasy thinking . Hope and change is simply a buzz word and not a path to the Hameland ( yes the Hameland ).
We're heading into the darkest dark-age in world history . Bad math , bad ideas are hardly limited to the left . Anyone or any society that forges forward , with wisdom thrown in the ash heap , is doomed to a hard and rocky path . Just as most drunks and most drug addicts choose to stay on the path they're on ( not all do though ) , so is a wisdom less society .
God help our children and their children after them .
I give him a break on this one. I am close to his age, and math was TOTALLY different when we were in school. Algebra was considered high level math back then, and very few students studied it. Calculus was done with a slide rule, and I never heard of anyone doing in in high school. There were no calculators until he would have been in about 5th grade, and they were ridiculously expensive. By the time he would have been in high school, cheap calculators had hit the market, but I know we were not allowed to use them in class, under any circumstances.
Fast forward to my daughter in about 6th grade. I could not help her with her math homework. I had no clue what they were doing, and by high school she had a mandatory TI-83 graphing calculator, and was taking calculus classes.
When I went back to college, I needed to take a remedial algebra class, LOL. I BARELY passed it. My teacher gave me a B because she saw how hard I studied. And I am a MATH person. I think mathematically - can figure tips and sale prices in a second in my head, etc. But that math is crazy. The kids today are learning the "lead-up" stuff in elementary school, so they learn it gradually, but to any adult over about age 45, it is like another language.
So, this is the only thing I give the guy a break for. I refuse to mock him on this! LOL
My son does AP Calculus in his head, no calculator or slide rule needed...it reallly blows my mind. He just sits ther with his book to his left, finger pointed to the problem. Paper in front of him. He looks at the book, waves his right hand back and forth (with pencil in hand) next thing you know; calulation is done and he scribbles an answer on the paper, no work shown...the amazing wonders of the autistic mind.
"Dear Leader" has so much trouble with math he has to have people like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barney Frank do it for him. Unfortunately we all know how that worked out.
Based on all the deficit spending and the national debt increase in the past 4 years I'd say he REALLY has a BIG math problem. The biggest in US history.
"I'm lost..." Well, at least the Whiz Kid isn't lying about that.