Two Road Safety Messages/Questions
1. On what side of the street should you walk on when there are no side
walks?
Answer: If you have to walk along a street without sidewalks,
try to walk on the side which allows you to face oncoming traffic. Then
you can sidestep oncoming traffic if need be, or see what hits you.
Otherwise, you are trusting that all drivers behind you, sleepy or not,
will see you.
This suggestion or guideline may not apply to all circumstances. The
advice here does not apply to travel in one direction along one-way
streets. The advice here does not apply if you are at the head or in the
middle of a column of people walking with their backs towards oncoming
traffic. But the people at the rear of the column with their backs
towards oncoming traffic may have cause for complaint. This advice also
does not apply when following it means crossing a dangerous flow of
traffic.
The other day, driving into the sun, I drove through a pedestrian
crossing. I did not see a mother and child about to cross. That was near
miss - an accident that could of been.
You too may have the legal right to walk on either side of a road, or to
cross. But put safety first. Right of way does not guarantee drivers will
miss you, even though most if not all, do not want to hit you.
even when you have have the right of way in principle, but it does not
hurt to look both ways when crossing a street, even a one way street, and
its does not hurt to walk not on the road, or at least on the road and
facing the traffice to seee what is coming, sensibly or not. Good luck.
2. What is the Best Way to Keep your hands or limb?
Do drive with you hand or arm through a car window. That invites problems
if the car comes to close to another vehicle or stationary object.
Avoid driving bicycles and motorcycles or bikes on lanes and roads shared
with cars, trucks and buses. In the case of an accident, riders in the
latter have some protection because they are surrounded by metal - the
car shell. But on a bicycle or motorcycle or motorbike in case of an
accident, there is no metal shell between you and the ground, or you and
another vehicle in case of an accident.
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For home-tutoring or -schooling, or for schools or colleges
with course content control: Secondary
Mathematics for Ages 11+, A Practical Approach.
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Work Booklets for ages 3+ to 13 Use these or others to check
or build skills. Other booklets are available but these booklets
allow parents unsure of themselves in mathematics to help their
children. The selection acquired in Canada is published in the
USA. So it has a US orientation. In retrospect, the selection
shows parents what to check with the booklets or by other ways,
the choice is theirs. But in retrospect, the selection does not
cover integral and fractions liquid weights and measures - ask
the publishers to correct that! For ages 9 to 12 say, parents may
compensate by showing boys and girls how to use weights or mass,
and further measures in food preparation. Beyond that children
may be shown how to measure and calculate angles, lengths and
areas [proportional amounts too] directly or by using maps and
plans drawns to scale. Learning how to gather and measure all the
ingredients, pots and pans for a dish or a meal, along with
cleaning up sets the stage for like activities or experiments in
science courses, and in developing organizational skills,
gives boys and girls a head start. Good luck. At the other
extreme, more comprehensive than light, if your motto is
McCainian: drill, drill, drill then Toronto
mathematician and actor John Mighton's jump math organization has jump math
workbooks for at least grades 3 to 8 for at-home and in-school
use - training sessions for teachers available. Jump math has
been expanding to cover older students. Jump Math Samples: plus
Fractions for
Grades 3-4 & Grades 5-6 [Read] Free Resources grades 1 to 8
[unread - likely to be good]. and
Mathematics
Skills For Ages 3 to 14 - technical!
Skills with take
home value - A few ideas
Basic skills include
time-date-calendar Matters; money matters; map, plan and
scale diagram matters;counting, measuring and figuring;
decision making with logic and likelyhood; being careful and
being aware of the domino effect of mistakes; reading and
writing with precision.
Is your child able to add, subtract and multiply amounts
of money, work with fractions, work with clocks and calendars,
work with maps and plans, and measure length, weight-mass and
volume? Schools may promote your son or daughter without
providing basic skills in reading, writing and
arithmetic.
Arithmetic
and Number Theory Skills
Algebra
Starter Lessons
Geometry
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Calculus Starter Lessons
Calculus Lessons Elsewhere:
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How to Ace Calculus: Street Wise Guide - Mostly
Text.
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Flash
Video for Calculus Phobics
They cover basic topics in ways likely to complement your
notes, your textbooks and site material. When Goldilocks
trespassed in the house of the three bears, she found three bowls
of porridge, two not to her liking, and one just right. Different
bears have different tastes. As invited guest here and elsewhere,
if one or more explanations is not to liking, try another. It may
be better or just right.
Unsolicited Advice
Learning to do and high marks if it comes to easy is often
deceptive - light rather than deep. For that reason, students
with learning difficulties determined not to let it get in their
way may go deeper and farther than those with none. High marks,
if the come easy, may be deceptive - provide a too light and not
a deep mastery. That could have been your problem in secondary
school, one that leads to comprehension shock or difficulties in
calculus and more generally in the first year of college. Bon
Appetite.
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