Home schooling - anyone else had a bit of a shock??

[Rough Hewn]

Sodium chlorate was your weed killer too.

They put a fire reducing agent in it sometime late 70's early 80's.
It still fizzed though.
Then one day I got hold of some proper stuff.
That was the last pop/fizz/boom I ever made.
Scared the bejeezus out of myself.
Ahhhh the good old days [emoji13][emoji95][emoji298]️[emoji91][emoji849][emoji106]

[spudulike]

Yup, they certainly werenot that I ever did anything like that ever

[cingur]

Me and my wife like repeating the school period. And it's very annoying

Edited May 5, 2020 by cingur

[Billhook]

I always thought that I was well educated, in arithmetic, history and English Grammar until I found my Great Grandfather’s exam paper from 1865 when he was twelve years old

Questions I liked were

in Grammar.

“When is a noun in the nominative case absolute?”

in arithmetic

”Find the value of a balk of timber 39 foot six inches long and three foot seven inches thick each way at two shillings and sixpence a cubic foot”

Geography 

“ you are going from London to Newcastle by sea, name all the counties, major towns, rivers, and estuaries that you would pass.”

There is also an article about the 1893 paper

 

This is your Lockdown exam folks!

[difflock]

Billhook,

I imagine "balk" should be spelled "baulk", yes?

just saying like!

[Billhook]

9 hours ago, difflock said:

Billhook,

I imagine "balk" should be spelled "baulk", yes?

just saying like!

Baulk is what most people do when faced with these exam papers.  Balk is what most people on this website deal with on a daily basis!

[tree-fancier123]

balk

noun [ C ]

 (UK also baulk)

 

UK 

 

 /bɔːk/ US 

 

 /bɑːlk/

 

balk noun [C] (WOOD)

 

a rough, thick piece of wood

12x12x12= 1728 cubic inches per foot

(39x12)+6 = 468 inches long

((12x3)+7)squared = 1849 square inches in cross section, 

so volume  = 468x1849=865,332 cubic inches = 865,332/1728 = 500.77 cubic feet

without a calculator, wearing a few old rags and malnourished would have been fun

 

Edited May 6, 2020 by tree-fancier123

[Billhook]

1 hour ago, tree-fancier123 said:

balk

noun [ C ]

 (UK also baulk)

 

UK 

 

 /bɔːk/ US 

 

 /bɑːlk/

 

balk noun [C] (WOOD)

 

a rough, thick piece of wood

12x12x12= 1728 cubic inches per foot

(39x12)+6 = 468 inches long

((12x3)+7)squared = 1849 square inches in cross section, 

so volume  = 468x1849=865,332 cubic inches = 865,332/1728 = 500.77 cubic feet

without a calculator, wearing a few old rags and malnourished would have been fun

 

You are a swot and risk being bullied by your classmates!

[Marlin.45]

On ‎30‎/‎04‎/‎2020 at 22:08, Squaredy said:

Well it turns out at age nine they are now trying to get our eldest to do joined up writing.  Trouble is they haven’t shown him how to form half the letters yet so he was just guessing.  And he has had no practice yet.  
 

Why not teach cursive writing from the start?  

My daughter is in Welsh medium stream (age 8) in a small Carmarthenshire village school of around 50 pupils and in some subjects I think she is excelling but others...not so much. Writing is pretty abysmal and I guess that comes from the general attitude 'why do you need to wite anything?' . I don't agree. Tables and Welsh language she is pretty much in the top 2-3 in her class but English has only been introduced to her in Sept '19 but she is doing well but I would estimate 1 year behind me at the same age. Months of the year - she doesn't know (home schooling job for today!). Good on Minecraft and Roblox though

[Marlin.45]

On ‎03‎/‎05‎/‎2020 at 21:57, Rough Hewn said:

They put a fire reducing agent in it sometime late 70's early 80's.
It still fizzed though.
Then one day I got hold of some proper stuff.
That was the last pop/fizz/boom I ever made.
Scared the bejeezus out of myself.
Ahhhh the good old days ️

The good old days before the paranoia kicked in?

 

'Crowscarers' let off in the playground and sod chlor/sugar based pipebombs at the weekend in the wood  Oh, and selling air guns at school.