Why not pay your kid for doing math problems? Is it worth trying?

Educational Pedagogy Forum
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Most math books include answers in the back, so you could cut those pages out and keep them for yourself to check how many your kid gets right.

If they use a calculator, give them 1 cent per correct answer. If they solve it without one, pay them 5 cents per correct answer.

Here’s the general order in which math is typically learned:

Pre-Algebra
Algebra 1
Geometry
Algebra 2
Trigonometry
Calculus

Honestly, if my parents had done this for me, I think I would have become a math genius.

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Maybe stick to topics you know more about.

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Carson said:
Maybe stick to topics you know more about.

This is a very odd suggestion…

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Chester said:

Carson said:
Maybe stick to topics you know more about.

This is a very odd suggestion…

He’s posted this idea in multiple places on this forum too.

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Carson said:

Chester said:
Carson said:
Maybe stick to topics you know more about.

This is a very odd suggestion…

He’s posted this idea in multiple places on this forum too.

That’s strange.

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Carson said:
Maybe stick to topics you know more about.

Haha, if this was the standard, this whole forum would fit on an old 1MB thumb drive.

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Meech said:

Carson said:
Maybe stick to topics you know more about.

Haha, if this was the standard, this whole forum would fit on an old 1MB thumb drive.

I don’t think 1MB thumb drives are a thing. Did you mean floppy disks?

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@Brooklyn
You could be right. Now that I think about it, I don’t remember having anything smaller than 8MB. My first disk drive was only 170kB.

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@Meech
You might be right, but it’s weird that anyone would make thumb drives smaller than a 3½-inch floppy. Those were 1.4MB! Anyway, yeah, even 8MB was tiny in the early days.

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Brooklyn said:
@Meech
You might be right, but it’s weird that anyone would make thumb drives smaller than a 3½-inch floppy. Those were 1.4MB! Anyway, yeah, even 8MB was tiny in the early days.

Yeah, some sellers even specify “Not 1GB.” My first memory device was a cassette tape recorder for a TI994a with 16kB. Back then, 64k on a Commodore 64 felt like it would last forever!

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@Meech
Haha, I remember thinking my 40GB iPod would never fill up. Before that, most of my devices felt limited in space. It’s crazy how fast things changed!

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Meech said:

Carson said:
Maybe stick to topics you know more about.

Haha, if this was the standard, this whole forum would fit on an old 1MB thumb drive.

But without this post, we’d miss out on your comment!

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@ScholarSam
Fair point! I did think about that as I was typing it.

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That’s a pretty bad idea. There are better ways to motivate kids, like good parenting and showing them the value of education.

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Yeah, because who needs intrinsic motivation, right?

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They can just use phone apps to solve everything anyway.