JotCast | MTH 220 May 26 Open Questions

MTH 220 May 26 Open Questions

Ashli Owens

8:58

Good night, I will check out now too. Thanks again! Talk to you tomorrow.

Kasey

8:58

I’m out yall! See you in the morning!

Greg Miller

I had a legally blind student last year in this course...

8:57

Wow.. what a story.. cool

Ashli Owens

8:57

One of the boys that I helped at Bullard is planning to come to SFA after 2 years at TJC. He is very math minded. If you get a guy from Bullard in a few years that that needs accommodations for being legally blind then that is him. He was adopted from China, so he is also an ELL. If you get him, he is amazing.

Greg Miller

8:57

They are just simply used to "school" being a heavier fraction of their activities.

8:56

She did tell me once that during her "junior high" and high school days that she was required to study more than she perceives most public schools in America require 6th-12th graders to study.. so when she got here for her freshman year.. her normal "study routine" was lightyears ahead of her peers... I believe that for sure.. I hear that a lot from foreign born students that come to American universities.

8:54

That's an interesting question.. hadn't thought about it like that.

Ashli Owens

It seems like it could only be a benefit to her.

8:54

I am totally impressed by it too! Very cool, I wonder how that impacts her thinking and approaches to learning. What I mean is does the way she thinks in both languages cause her to be more precise and literal, or more general, etc. depending on how those languages express themselves...I am curious?

Greg Miller

8:50

I'll tell ya.. she's asleep and can't defend herself.. but that story about Elena learning to mix dialects of German and French as a young girl.. and learning half her subjects in one language and half in the other.. that downright blew me away.

Ashli Owens

8:50

Thanks Dr. Miller, you have been very encouraging and I really appreciate it.

8:49

Hopefully we are all retaining it. Good luck to everyone tomorrow!

Greg Miller

8:49

The whole class has really been great.. Maymester classes are usually really good.. everyone locks in and really works

Kasey

Sorry didn’t mean to send that. That means you are retaining it tho!

8:47

Ashli Owens

8:46

I woke up imagining that I was explaining why CLT is valid to someone.

Kasey

8:39

lol nope my mind is shutting statistics out for a few days after our exam if I can help it! Unless I dream about it like I have for the past 16 nights!

Greg Miller

8:36

Kasey at dentist: "Hey, did you know that the number of cavities an adult patient has can be modelled by a binomial mass function, where n = number of teeth, success = has cavity, failure = they don't .. and all trials are independent because your cavities don't affect mine? Huh.. did you know? Did you? Did you?

8:32

I am a hand-sanitizing machine.. EVERYWHERE! LOL...

8:31

Now.. on that issue, I am freaky... I wash/use hand santizer at about every encounter...but that's a result of my wife setting that pattern for me.. she ALWAYS keeps/kept hand sanitizer in her car.. so she trained me well on that

Kasey

8:30

I’m excited about getting my teeth cleaned and going to the chiropractor later this week!

Ashli Owens

8:30

I can see the benefit of them, I choose based on the situation. I will say that I don't believe that most people are washing/replacing their masks (defeats the purpose).

Greg Miller

8:30

Not saying it is good/right/correct.. whatever.. but I was in a restaurant today where all the servers were in masks, the owner of the restaurant was not and none of the15-20 of us in the restaurant with spaced tables had on masks..

Kasey

8:29

my dad is an optometrist and his office has taken extra precautions when they got to open up!

Greg Miller

8:28

I have a several masks... I'll admit to NOT using them most of the time.. I think if I was headed to WalMart or some other place where social distancing was downright difficult, I'd wear one.. I've been pretty split on the "masks" issue..

Kasey

8:26

I was surprised to hear some folks aren’t wearing masking any more. I count is still high so I wear one if I go out in public.

Greg Miller

8:26

We were talking COVID.. Center has been hit hard with the chicken plants and such.. that was what I was referring too.

Kasey

8:25

That might have been me that made the count go up. I’m just checking in. I saw my name and was like what??!!!... lol

Greg Miller

8:22

Restaurants have taken a huge, huge hit.. that is one industry here in Nac that I am glad to get back to supporting.. I really enjoy visiting various eateries here in Nac.. now that some are opening.. I'm trying to get back in there and eat lunch/dinner at some of my faves again..

Ashli Owens

8:21

I try to find stories, then go to the local news for that story to find out the real details. It is surprising how often the details are different (no matter the original source for my first exposure to the info). I actually knew that this was coming when I saw media from China about it and started getting extra food in December because my husband is in the restaurant business and I knew we could be hit hard. We did not have any problems when he lost income from it because of that.

Greg Miller

8:20

Reader count just jumped... hop in with questions.. we are just chatting about COVID.. drop in questions about material any time..

8:19

Living in sheds.. goodness.

Wow.. what stories Ashli.. gosh.

8:18

Yeah, I was already about "tapped out" on some mainstream media sources anyway.. COVID completely pushed me over the edge.. the media (mainstream) on both sides of the political isle has been really poor in my opinion.

Ashli Owens

8:17

There are some big problems that this has caused for some of the kids that I help. There is no housing development for kids in the country. Some of them literally live in sheds. When I went to help with food distribution, several of them looked very thin. I am worried about them because some of their parents cannot work and cannot even afford to pay for the gas to go get food at times.

8:15

I agree, I sit in that same camp, I think that mostly there are good intentions full of errors because everything is so new. I just personally don't like the political strong arming involved with it. I think some people are purposefully skewing it, but I am unwilling to completely commit to that. It bothers me that opposing opinions are being removed from the conversation in the media. I think that we should be allowed to hear each side and that our opinion should be formed without the information being edited for us.

Greg Miller

8:13

For what it's worth.. I think Nacogdoches.. and where Kasey is.. Shelby County.. have REALLY struggled... if the local counts are anywhere close to accurate.. and they probably are close.. then we've had way more positives that I expected back in mid-March.

8:12

I'm always willing to be wrong, but I sit in the camp that believes that COVID deaths are being OVERcounted. I know plenty of people that vehemently disagree with me... but we'll see in time.. again, I could be very wrong about that.. it's just my own opinion and nothing more.

8:10

I know a lot of people have a lot of opinions about COVID data. My thoughts are that most of the data we are seeing is truly just approximate.. filled with various forms of errors.. I think it'll be quite a while before we sort out what's "real" and what's "not" with the COVID data.. it's been a mess.

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