Should Ex Pats teach Geography?

[sonjack2847]

4 minutes ago, jpbago said:

How would it be if a globe was used? Is the earth flat or not?

Only if you are way behind the times.

[Dave Hounddriver]

11 minutes ago, jpbago said:

How would it be if a globe was used? Is the earth flat or not?

Globes are actually incorrect.  It is a fallacy that the world is round.  Now ya see, if you were teaching that you would be perpetuating the fallacy.  Read this article first and then you may understand:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-is-not-round/

[Jack Peterson]

Just now, Dave Hounddriver said:

 It is a fallacy that the world is round.

YEP! Happiness is Egg shaped and we should  all go to work on an egg, Cos the old ITV Adverts said so

 But seriously, I have a book here that anyone can borrow called "THE FLAT EARTH" that will surprise many in that, the Arguments over this have been going on for So Many years it makes you wonder if there may be some Truth in it

 But to me, a map on the Table is FLAT 

 

OK,OK, I know back to normal Service, 

 Mutter, mutter mutter, Ok so I will just go and have Lunch and leave a 20 peso tip for the wife to steal

 

[AlwaysRt]

7 minutes ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

Globes are actually incorrect.  It is a fallacy that the world is round.  Now ya see, if you were teaching that you would be perpetuating the fallacy.  Read this article first and then you may understand:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-is-not-round/

hmmm, I propose that a globe is correct as the 'imperfections' cannot be seen on a tabletop globe due to the scale being such that the differences are less than the thickness of the ink used to draw on it.

*note* I actually have no idea but it sounds good.

[jpbago]

33 minutes ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

Globes are actually incorrect.  It is a fallacy that the world is round.  Now ya see, if you were teaching that you would be perpetuating the fallacy.  

 

Why not tell the students that the earth is not round and that the distance to the center of the Earth from the equator is 3,963 miles and the distance to the center of the Earth from the poles is only 3,949 miles for a difference of 13 miles? 

[Jack Peterson]

1 minute ago, jpbago said:

for a difference of 13 miles? 

But given the world's Circumference JP, 13 miles is chicken feed surely, not enough to totally support the World is not Round, Is it?

[robert k]

Oblate spheroid, last I checked.

[Jack Peterson]

2 minutes ago, robert k said:

Oblate spheroid,

 Is that a Tagalog, Ilonggo, Bisaya, Scientific word or did you make it up

 Just Teasing mate

[Dave Hounddriver]

So I gave my opinion and:

So I shall bow out of this one.

[Jake]

I also tried to teach my family distance vs time travel.  For example, if San Francisco is approx 800 miles from where we live (Moreno Valley, CA), how long will it take us if we drove on the average 70 miles per hour?

I gave up when my college daughter asked me what is average?  

Edited June 10, 2017 by Jake