Don't fix the problem just change the parameters
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Why are you so adamant that reading is required at all? You could just watch ticktock instead after all.
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Really? I never knew any of them were synchronized, that's cool if so. I seem to remember us pulling them off the wall at our schools and changing them twice a year or replacing the batteries. Having them wired with synchronization may be overboard, but it is kind of cool
All my schools had them. Sometimes you'd catch them doing a resync and all the hands would spin around. I think they probably couldn't rotate CCW so had to go around the long way if they needed to roll back a few minutes.
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What's interesting about this is that we are not taught how to take notes. People used to have classes that taught what is actually a complicated skill. I have gone through enough schooling that my note taking just happens without much thought, but it took me real effort to get there.
I had a couple teachers try to spend a single class about note taking but I think note taking is different for everyone, much like learning styles. Telling someone to skip a,b, and ,c and just write d because they view it as the important information only works for people who think exactly how they think. So I would try something like that and would end up with.
1974 - congress - didn't pass till 1980.
That means nothing to someone unless they know more context, which the context clues in my experience are tied to someone's individual thought processes. In this case it would be mentions of maybe reconciliation process, simple majority, and budget. But for others it could be other things.
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Its the Hertz of ac current that comteols timing. But that's just how it counts the seconds not how it would tell if it is noon. But its uses analog electricity to keep time and maybe a digital comand to set time. Does make it digital or analog?
I was thinking if you had a set voltage and resistance you could hold a certain rpm for the motor going to the gears. Then if you needed to adjust it you could stop the current by dialing down the voltage or possibly increase the analog dial to increase the voltage and make the clocks motors all spin faster until you reached the desired time and dial it back to standard voltage. But you would have loss over distance in the wire unless you made them all the max length needed, and coiled them to make them all the "same length" from dial to clock.
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Are you from the US? I'm completely amazed that there are counties we you are almost never exposed to analog clocks. I'm from Europe and analog clocks are everywhere. Every train station, public buildings, churches, clock towers, homes, wrist watches. Heck we even have tons of (but more because of esthetics instead of serious time keeping) sun dials on walls (which the analog clock and the clock wise direction is based on - for the north hemisphere).
Many appliances/devices have digital clocks but that's not because the are more modern/better but because they are way cheaper to produce and have less moving parts.I'm from the US, but I'm currently a teacher in South America. Kids here are even worse at reading analog clocks than my students in the US were.
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Teacher here.
I'm pretty certain that the only place where my students ever encounter an analog clock is at school.
What the actual fuck? Are you not using wrist watches at all at whatever US hole you are a teacher at? Because most of these are analogue.
Not currently teaching in a "US hole." I've been teaching in South America for 5 years and I have never noticed an analog clock in a public place here.
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That might actually be a perfect example of mental gymnastics. What a strange justification of just liking something.
I mean, not really. He knows analog clocks well enough that the hand position just inherently means something to him. Afternoon, and the little hand is almost halfway? Work day done! Just by position.
Somewhat analagous: I know how far a meter and a kilometer are, in principle, but when I consider distances I more intuitively understand them in feet and miles. It's what I'm used to.
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It took me until age 15 to become comfortable reading analog clocks and confident knowing which way is left and right.
Hey cut me some slack, left/right gets confusing sometimes because of mirrors & facing people).
But I think learning how to tell time on an analog clock is an important skill because it broadens the mind regarding mechanics & mathematics, thereby developing more synapses in our brains & logic & mental computational skills.
I'm old af and I still have to think about it
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24h analog clocks exist but they are pretty useless because you lose angular resolution. So unless you are a vampire that's up 24/7 a 12 hour wall clock has better angular resolution than a clock with 33% wasted area you'll never use/see because you are asleep
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What was scribbled out of this screenshot with black lines, and why was it scribbled out?
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I remember getting a compliment more then once jn school. I was good t talong what i learned in once class and applying it to another
wait analog is outdated?? what do you mean?? What else do people wear on their wrist?? some dystopian world your living in
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Analogue clocks are a great example of kids having to understand a concept and apply it. And it's simple enough that anyone can learn it.
I often see examples where children are required to memorize a set solution, instead of showing understanding and reaching the solutions themselves.
These clocks are somewhat dated, but removing them just feels like another symptom of a failing educational system.
wait analog is outdated?? what do you mean?? What else do people wear on their wrist?? some dystopian world your living in
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which I can tell simply by looking outside
In a snow storm?
Not during the storm maybe idk it's been a while since I was in a snow storm. but afterwards before I get power back.
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It took me until age 15 to become comfortable reading analog clocks and confident knowing which way is left and right.
Hey cut me some slack, left/right gets confusing sometimes because of mirrors & facing people).
But I think learning how to tell time on an analog clock is an important skill because it broadens the mind regarding mechanics & mathematics, thereby developing more synapses in our brains & logic & mental computational skills.
Once I figured out what hand I write with, it was all easy street from there. I used to tell myself βI write with my right handβ
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No one's asking the real question... Is that background image AI?
Nevermind that this was from 2018.
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What's interesting about this is that we are not taught how to take notes. People used to have classes that taught what is actually a complicated skill. I have gone through enough schooling that my note taking just happens without much thought, but it took me real effort to get there.
and I yet I had a class in note taking and then years latter got points taken off because I didn't take like that teacher wanted
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I hope you are not serious. If the shadow (hand) is on two, it's two o'clock. If it's on three, it's three o'clock. If it's exactly between those two ticks it's half past two. There isn't even anything to learn (at least when they were invented). That's exactly how the hour hand on a clock works.
(Note: Today it would be a bit more complicated if you want wall-clock-time because the sun dial always tells local solar time and if you want the time in your time zone you would have to adjust for DST and use the equation of time for some smaller corrections)
wrote last edited by [email protected]You don't know how to read one - you've forgotten to calibrate it.
If you don't do that before use, it's measurements are meaningless. Correcting for DST and dates and other minor aspects of how time is handled in the modern era is important (blech screw DST), but this issue was present even in the roman era and is why sundials have movable faces. Premodern observatories (eg. stonehenge or the observatories at pisac) have references to correct the measurements for things like change in solar position and the progression towards the equinox for the same reason.
I don't think we should get rid of analog clocks, I just wanted to point out that your example here isn't a very good one to use.
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Digitals are way easier to read.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You can teach three year olds to read analog clocks (see my other post) but I've yet so see three year olds reading and understanding digital clocks. I get the feeling in this thread that everybody that has issues with analog clocks is from the US and that might come from the fact that the US (at least it seems based on this thread) has almost no exposure to analog clocks.
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Devolving to linguistic prescriptivism just proves you don't have an argument anymore lol
No, it shows that people who cannot read the clock are also unable to write.
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It's about how far the hand moves in a given time. On a normal 12h circle analog clock the hand moves 30Β° per hour. On a 24h analog clock that's halfed to 15Β° per hour.
