This really hit home. My daughters are 13 and 17. I’ve been helping them with their math homework since the beginning. Now I can’t remember how to do math like algebra, trig etc. So I fake it, google it, bought a trig/ calculus dvd...etc. They still think I’m smart! Fingers crossed!
I love Kahn Academy. It is a free website and has recorded lessons of teachers. So I can look up specific math topics and see them taught. 😀 In fact there are lessons on so many subject areas. Love it!
When I was young I was in the hospital. My mom came to visit me and brought me a box of Captain Crunch. She usually only bought no name cereal. I assumed it meant I was dying!
i dont mean to be so off topic but does any of you know of a way to log back into an instagram account? I stupidly forgot the account password. I appreciate any help you can offer me.
@@davianabel3381 Here is a really analog method to remember your passwords: Write them down on paper in a spiral bound notebook! You would be surprised at how well this works! Good luck!
@@Username-tz9ud Ahhh, gotcha... I completely overlooked the ' #1 ' I guess bc it was on a separate line lol... no sleep in 54 hours will do things to ya lolol but that's what happens when you travel for a living
When my dad went back to school for nursing I had to sit down at the kitchen table and help him with his math homework 😂 when I started calculus I knew I was on my own lol!
Been following Toomey's comedy for years! Nice to finally see him on Dry Bar. I wish he'd release his hilarious TV & Me comedy show where he imitates most of all the classic primetime TV and cartoon characters of his youth!
Wow dear God he’s fantastic. That was truly hilarious, beyond entertaining; it was 36 minutes of pure joy for me, he is super talented and creative. I am beyond impressed with every single joke!!! Thank you Dry Bar comedy you always deliver and never disappoint!!!
I mean they definitely disappoint sometimes lol I appreciate what they do, I think this guy's funny, and their success rate is pretty good, but folks like James gregory....hoo boy, some of em are painfully unfunny : p
This guy actually made me laugh about situations in life that would normally make me sad😂😭 I stopped being able to help my daughter with her advanced math midway through her 8th grade year. That's pretty much where I stopped understanding advanced math midway through my 8th grade year. Wish Khan Academy existed when I was younger. Thankfully, unlike me, she graduated with honors this year.
I think the root of the problem may be that, in my experience, the math teachers never communicate why someone should learn this stuff. There are some basic skills which you may rarely need but will be vital when you do, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions and percentages as a useful kicker. No one has ever needed to figure out when a train leaving New York at 2:00 traveling 60 miles an hour will meet a train leaving Chicago at 3:00 traveling 90 miles an hour. The reason you should learn to answer questions like that is to teach your mind to look at a problem, and not just a math problem, and analyze it in an orderly manner.
Once common core started no one could help my kids with their math..... and my mom is a CFO..... I made an appointment with the teacher...... she didn’t know how to do it either 😬
I'm pretty sure I was raised with Common Core, so I can't speak for the veracity of earlier methods. What I can say is that 99% of people I've met who weren't raised with other methods *still hate math.* I'm pretty convinced that most of the people who complain about Common Core couldn't help their kids with math if the lessons were exactly the same as the ones they got as a kid. It's the result of a societal stigma towards math as a whole because people have long since realized that it's easier to complain about math than to actually learn it.
Carol Young yes ma’am. I put my kids in private school when in the middle of a math test a question popped up on the computer that said “How many people have you had sex with?” A. 0-3. B.4-7. C. 8-12 . D. More And the homework two different nights were “Write down everything in your parents medicine cabinet” and a couple nights later..... “How does the state provide for you like your parents/family, but better?” He was 14 at the time and my daughter was 17. Nope! Done Done!!!
Don't feel bad for not understanding the point of "new math" methods" The reason people have trouble with them is because they are trying to work out why you would approach a simple problem from such a convoluted strategy. New Math has thrown out the baby with the bathwater to teach a few almost useless tricks, while ignoring the foundation and principles which allow them to make sense. I will put my old math against anybody's new math any day of the week, and I'll do it all in my head. Most new math victims can't figure out simple sums because they don't have a scratch paper and fifteen tables to complicate what would otherwise be common sense. Databyter
Long multiplication and division in my head everyday when I need to math something out. My teachers in grade school used to get mad at me for not showing my work with the little graphics they wanted.
They have been changing math every 15 / 20 years since I was in school. Manufactured generation gap. Why listen to a parent's advice on any subject?? Dummies can't even do simple math.
@@Evilrose0611 To heII with those stupld graphics. My physics prof got mad too. I told him that since 3 semesters of Calculus is a requirement to get in the class, I can do this stuff in my head! You don't have time to do those stupld graphics on physics tests. You need to know this stuff cold.
Absolutely agree! I went from going to math competitions every year, to straight up failing any mathematical exam. The transition from middle school to high school was TOUGH for me. New math isn't for everyone, and that was something I had to force myself to understand. The moment they started putting letters in mathematics, that's when it started becoming difficult for me.
Like my kids needed anything more then the basics and maybe make Budgeting and Balancing your money and Bank accounts as part of Math. I am 66 and learned everything I need by living. School? I learned Historic lies, Zero about Government and very little to ready me for the World
This guy was amazing! The narrator voice was flawless, and the "cheap trick" punchline was arguably THE BEST joke on the show, yet people merely reacted to it. In my humble opinion HE KILLED!
I worked in a daycare we had two nursing students a engineering student and I was a business student. We wrote a letter for a 5th grader saying we couldn’t figure out how to help her with her homework and neither could her parents. The teacher wrote a note back she apologized to her students and gave them full credit and got rid of that homework.
I once took a worksheet back in to the teacher for my nephew. It was out and out wrong in the math. They had to get rid of that one. And they're always trying to show them 3 or 4 methods to come to an answer. I'm like "Just let them do the problem!"
@@saritataylor4235 I fear what math is going to be like when my son starts school in 5 years. My old teachers favorite saying was there’s more than one way to skin a cat. She said It every time someone asked why we need to know different ways to get a answer
@@bonnieweidman1002 it wasn’t at the correct level the kids were learning at the time they were unable to complete the homework she threw it out so it didn’t effect their grades
I was SO impressed with how he listed ALL those candies and gum brands without missing a beat!! 😂👍 Brought back alot of memories for me along with the costumes... I was dying throughout the whole show 👌
4:30 my uncle offered to adopt me and enroll me in the copper mill apprenticeship. daddy: "my son is going to college". i flunked out, went to VN, and my cousin is now retired as UMW treasurer making $120k/mo retired pay. thanks daddy.
First time I met common core (11 years ago), my friend's 3rd grade daughter was like "Can you help me with my math homework?!" Sure!.....First problem?? After a 5 minute rant on the idiocy packed within her obviously sadistic teacher, I hugged her and said "Sorry, honey, but I'm gonna go, because I need therapy now." Lol
Very impressed with the memory capacity! 😳 I was an A student in Trigonometry but, there some problems with bad instructions on my 3rd grader homework that leaves me scratching my head! 🤪😜
I think the big problem is kids are expected to solve math problems in many different ways and to explain how they solved them. This is ridiculous as most kids get confused. When I was a student, we were shown 1 way. We mastered that one way and could do it. We did not have to explain and solve, just solve. Now today we have very confused kids except for the very few brilliant kids.
Mike Toomey's got the special kind of announcer voice that would land him a seat alongside the crew of Rifftrax in their next Coronet/AVI edutainment short! 📼😁 Great stuff!
This guy actually HAS ADD... omg.. I found a friend... So many people say they do.. they have no idea the daily struggle of doing everything wrong...the principal would tell my mom.. "there's nothing wrong with average.. " as I struggled to keep my own ponytails from obstructing my vision...
I'm glad to see Mike is still doing his thing. He used to headline at a club in Chicago back in 1990ish, where I worked. Lovely guy, always liked his sets.
I resemble that! I'm 56 years old and one of the anesthesiologists I used to work for, he did all three of the epidurals when I had my kids, one day smiled and asked me, "Did you know you have Adult ADHD? Has your PCP ever diagnosed you with it?" Puzzled, I replied, "I've never been told that before. What made you say that?" Doc laughed and said, "Oh, because I have Adult ADHD too!" 🤨 I have Adult ADHD, am OCD and figured out I'm dyslexic when I transposed two letters in a word on a spelling test in the 6th grade, (which pissed me off because it was the first spelling test I had ever gotten less than 100% on) before that was a "thing" also. Kids that have ADD, ADHD, OCD and/or are dyslexic are very intelligent. They stare out of the window in school because THEY ARE BORED. Our 8 year old granddaughter is the same way. I rarely ever took homework home or studied and was in tears the first time I was given a B + on an assignment my sophomore year in high school. That B + as a grade just floored me. I argued with my teacher over it, but it at the end of the day, it was still a B f*cking +. My older brother studied his @$$ off and was a C average student. When he got a B- for a grade, you would have thought he won the lottery! Everyone is intelligent in their own way based on how they learn. My brother is a tactile learner, I'm an audio & visual learner. On a side note: How many of you know that Learning Disabled Classes and Gifted Learning Classes are BOTH CLASEIFIED AS SPECIAL EDUCATION??? READ...THAT...AGAIN... 😉 I've seen trophy's, high school and college class rings as well as military class rings. It's heartbreaking to realize the accomplishments of one person had no real meaning for their loved ones, if they had any family at all. That Batman/Adam West impersonation was spot on! 🤣 So was the impersonation of the narrator for the films we watched in junior and senior high school! OMG!!! 🤣🤣🤣 ~ APRIL LIPKE
My kids are both great people. I'm very proud of them both. But there's no greater reward than hearing them say my words spontaneously, and not catching it until they've finished saying it. The reaction is just the most delicious morsel my ears and brain could consume. And, when they say it to their own friends, I could cry and move on from this life. One time, my daughter turned to one of her friends and said this - "Darby, all of your choice have consequences, and you are an adult, so you own 100% of your choices consequences." The dead silence after that was like a vacuum in outer space. She simultaneously gasped, choked, screamed, and stifled a scream while she ran from the room. The other three girls just looked at each other. When one of them looked at me, I said, "My bad..."
I used to know a kid named Mike Toomey when we were in our teens. I doubt it was the same person, but it's been so long that it wouldn't surprise me too much if it were.
Yeah, we.had a dentist living on the next street over. He always gave out a generic looking plain white tooth brush in a plastic sleeve like a straw comes in. A tiny tube of generic toothpaste. And a pamphlet on the importance of brushing after eating sweets. One year I guess he got tired of kids egging his house, and that year he gave out sticks of sugar free gum. The next year he went back to toothbrushes, too many kids stuck their chewed gum on his doorknob.😜
All my teachers in highschool thought I was special needs, because I'd mess with them mentally/psychologically. Only 1 of my teachers knew my deal. They had a big meeting w my teachers and my mother, and told her they wanted to test me to place me in spec Ed. My science teacher told them at the table, "don't be too surprised when his testing shows he's smarter than all of us in this room combined" I was tested twice in 2 years, with an IQ of 165 But there really was a problem, I was unable to learn/understand the way curriculum was taught, I still don't know why. So today, I have an IQ of 165, bit I'm not book smart. My gift is in common sense, logic, reasoning etc... I never took algebra and I still struggle with learning via audio or text I learn best from watching and doing/mechanically learning I was extraordinarily smart at getting out of doing what I didn't want to do... I only hurt myself in the end. Now I'm a smart dummy
Fruity Pebbles with extra milk to dunk my Peanut Butter sandwich into. Never finished the cereal, cuz it got mushy, but loved the flavored milk with my sandwich! Those were the days!
How rude is that person in the audience? Someone's in the middle of answering his question and they decide to just shout YOU GUYS ARE OLD. What a prick.
