{"id":314,"date":"2006-02-26T13:07:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T18:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=314"},"modified":"2006-02-26T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T18:08:04","slug":"hey-i-passed-8th-grade-math-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/02\/26\/hey-i-passed-8th-grade-math-as-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, I passed 8th grade math as well!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/SubEvilBoy\">Sub-Evil Boy<\/a> found this via <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/\">Pharyngula<\/a> and was quite pleased that he could already (in the 6th grade) &#8220;pass&#8221; 8th grade math.  Well, if he can pass, let&#8217;s hope his old man is up to the task&#8230; :-)<\/p>\n<table width=350 align=center border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CDDEFF\" align=center>\n<font face=\"Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif\" style='color:black; font-size: 14pt;'><br \/>\n<strong>You Passed 8th Grade Math<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EBF2FF\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.blogthings.com\/couldyoupasseighthgrademathquiz\/passed.jpg?resize=100%2C100\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<font color=\"#000000\"><br \/>\nCongratulations, you got 10\/10 correct!<br \/>\n<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogthings.com\/couldyoupasseighthgrademathquiz\/\">Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Huzzah!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And no, I&#8217;m not dead, just absolutely buried in work stuff.  This is the price one pays for a <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/02\/06\/daaaagstuuuuuhl\/\">week in Germany<\/a> (slowly posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/sets\/72057594069705015\/\">more photos on Flickr<\/a>) and being chair of too many things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/99229824\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/29\/99229824_5fd8d575cb_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Snow at the castle\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I particularly like this shot of Riccardo and Alden working on the material that eventually became that amazing one week paper!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/103784837\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/38\/103784837_fda1bffa76_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"How science is done\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Sub-Evil Boy found this via Pharyngula and was quite pleased that he could already (in the 6th grade) &#8220;pass&#8221; 8th grade math. Well, if he can pass, let&#8217;s hope his old man is up to the task&#8230; :-) You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10\/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/02\/26\/hey-i-passed-8th-grade-math-as-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey, I passed 8th grade math as well!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[17,22,14,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-54","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":458,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/10\/do-we-need-to-be-requiring-more-mathscience-in-high-school\/","url_meta":{"origin":314,"position":0},"title":"Do we need to be requiring more math\/science in high school?","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"10 Feb 07","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned before, I took part in a panel discussion on women in science and math last week. 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