Sentences with phrase «confused by my math»

Students analyze whether their thoughts about the problem are permanent («I stink at math and will never get good at it») or temporary («I was distracted by my friends»), and whether they blame themselves («I didn't ask for help when I was confused by my math assignment») or others («the teacher doesn't like me») for the problem.

Not exact matches

The math can be confusing, when attempting to equate the date of the death of Jesus with the date of the death of the actual passover lamb, which by «time» reckoning was in reality 18 hours before, but was indeed the third hour of the night of Nisan 15.

They'll likely become confused by what's true and what isn't, they'll be disinterested in science as a subject, and our already declining test scores in math and science will decline further while we stand around bickering over whether our kids should learn the thing we can prove or the thing we can't prove but choose to believe in anyway.

Parents may be confused by the new math but math teachers are asking parents to please not try to teach kids the old way of doing math.

If you can't understand such simple math, then institutions like Basel and Frieze may confuse you - and we know that vasts amounts of the art world denizens and average hoi polloi are usually confused by the high ticket prices of contemporary art.

By all accounts he's pretty smart and based on his 30 % comment above, he also isn't into the math, except perhaps when he wants to confuse people.

David Rose mislead his readership with his simplistic math argument and by confusing an absence of a warming trend as a significant statistical signal for a plateau.

He of course tried to confuse everyone by using fancy math and calculating things that ought just to be left alone.