"Bridge is Cool"

[keylime]

Matt,

 

Well said - the local clubs here only know MP pairs. No concept of originality offered in format.

[slothy]

'Bridge is Cool' sounds more like something Huggie Bear would say after Hutch seduced some hot chick in hot pants (she was wearing the hot pants NOT David Soul...)

 

(Ah the nostalgia of real-life 70s cop shows)

 

But i suppose it is better than 'Bridge is Awesome'....a non-descript universal adjective i notice Justin uses a lot hee hee

 

If they really want to curry Street-Cred they gotta have 50 cents (49 cents more than he is worth in my opinion) or Eminem jive some rap and have it broadcast oN MTV and have them slapping their fingers together and rattling their bling-bling.....

 

or even have the Teletubbies (British kids program featuring overweight gibbering pseudo-marsupials running around aimlessly which makes me wonder how British kids ever grow up to spell or string together a sentence with well-formed grammar) play rubber bridge on the lawn and explain Morton's Fork á la Dr Seuss

 

Well just a thought

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Here's a thought.

 

How much modification would it require for school educational departments to progressively integrate the basic and then more advanced concepts and principles of bridge into their Math and/or integrated curricula? Think about it: addition, subtraction, division/percentages, probability, problem-solving, planning and anticipating, etc., etc. (Maybe not bidding- haven't thought that much about bidding. Perhaps that could come under some communication rubric. After all, bidding and signalling are forms of communication/ language.) Could do this without ever mentioning the word "card", or any suits. Kids would be learning the game without even knowing it over a period of several years, and it wouldn't even cost school departments a penny more.

[hrothgar]

Here's a thought.

 

How much modification would it require for school educational departments to progressively integrate the basic and then more advanced concepts and principles of bridge into their Math and/or integrated curricula? Think about it: addition, subtraction, division/percentages, probability, problem-solving, planning and anticipating, etc., etc. (Maybe not bidding- haven't thought that much about bidding. Perhaps that could come under some communication rubric. After all, bidding and signalling are forms of communication/ language.) Could do this without ever mentioning the word "card", or any suits. Kids would be learning the game without even knowing it over a period of several years, and it wouldn't even cost school departments a penny more.

While I like the idea, its never gonna happen in the US...

Public schools are all "teaching ot the test". You might be able to pull this off

in a Montossori School or some such.

 

Back when I was an Associate Instructor for Intro to Probability and Statistics at IU a truly remarkable amount of the course work dealt with Blackjack... Sadly, I had to remove the problem sets when some parents complained. Sigh

[hrothgar]

Maybe not bidding- haven't thought that much about bidding. Perhaps that could come under some communication rubric. After all, bidding and signalling are forms of communication/ language

On the bidding front, there's very good reason's why well designed relay structures are based on Fibonacci Sequences...

[Double !]

Here's a thought.

 

How much modification would it require for school educational departments to progressively integrate the basic and then more advanced concepts and principles of bridge into their Math and/or integrated curricula?  Think about it: addition, subtraction, division/percentages, probability, problem-solving, planning and anticipating, etc., etc.  (Maybe not bidding- haven't thought that much about bidding.  Perhaps that could come under some communication rubric.  After all, bidding and signalling are forms of communication/ language.)  Could do this without ever mentioning the word "card", or any suits.  Kids would be learning the game without even knowing it over a period of several years, and it wouldn't even cost school departments a penny more.

While I like the idea, its never gonna happen in the US...

Public schools are all "teaching ot the test". You might be able to pull this off

in a Montossori School or some such.

 

Back when I was an Associate Instructor for Intro to Probability and Statistics at IU a truly remarkable amount of the course work dealt with Blackjack... Sadly, I had to remove the problem sets when some parents complained. Sigh

I work in a middle school in the inner city in a different state not too far from you, but I also know the Mass. Dept. of Ed. and the Mass. Ave/ Mem. Drive area quite well. I spent a lot of my life in the Boston area.

 

Trust me, I know all about teaching to the test (the pressures to get scores up and consequences for nonsuccess) whether they be the MCAS or whatever they're called, or various state and/or city-wide tests. Not a bridge-related topic (except for Mass ave bridge, perhaps?).

 

I just seem to recall the acbl looking for ways some time in the past to initiate teaching bridge in schools (as an elective/ after school) or at least exposing more kids to the game at a younger age. I guess I had a delusional epiphany in thinking that it might appeal to more people/ kids if it was associated with the idea that many aspects of the game were things that they had been learning all along.

[mike777]

Here's a thought.

 

How much modification would it require for school educational departments to progressively integrate the basic and then more advanced concepts and principles of bridge into their Math and/or integrated curricula?  Think about it: addition, subtraction, division/percentages, probability, problem-solving, planning and anticipating, etc., etc.   (Maybe not bidding- haven't thought that much about bidding.  Perhaps that could come under some communication rubric.  After all, bidding and signalling are forms of communication/ language.)  Could do this without ever mentioning the word "card", or any suits.  Kids would be learning the game without even knowing it over a period of several years, and it wouldn't even cost school departments a penny more.

While I like the idea, its never gonna happen in the US...

Public schools are all "teaching ot the test". You might be able to pull this off

in a Montossori School or some such.

 

Back when I was an Associate Instructor for Intro to Probability and Statistics at IU a truly remarkable amount of the course work dealt with Blackjack... Sadly, I had to remove the problem sets when some parents complained. Sigh

I went back to school in the middle of my life to get an MBA.

 

After watching Jay leno segment "jaywalking" I asked a bunch of these young grad students some basic questions.

 

1) Who fought in our civil war?

2) What century?

3) How long for the earth to rotate once around the sun?

4) How long for the earth to rotate around its axis?

5) Do you know what the heck the axis is ?

6) How long does it take the moon to circle the earth?

7) Ok the last question was a trick one, we all know the earth circles the moon, right?

 

For more see Jay Leno, jaywalking.

 

Of course almost none of these grad students got these right.

Why confuse them with fib....sequences, let alone T-statistics, Durbin-Watson, multiplication, division and critical thinking?

 

 

Teach them bridge, most of them have no idea who Walt Whitman is. good grief.

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Sigh

I went back to school in the middle of my life to get an MBA.

 

After watching Jay leno segment "jaywalking" I asked a bunch of these young grad students some basic questions.

 

1) Who fought in our civil war?

2) What century?

3) How long for the earth to rotate once around the sun?

4) How long for the earth to rotate around its axis?

5) Do you know what the heck the axis is ?

 

Of course almost none of these grad students got these right.

Why confuse them with fib....sequences, let alone T-statistics, Durbin-Watson, multiplication, division and critical thinking?

 

 

Teach them bridge, most of them have no idea who Walt Whitman is. good grief.

two comments in response

 

1) Serious Congrats in getting MBA- a lot of time and work put in, I suspect.

 

2) Why don't the results of your little survey surprise me? (What's an "axis"?, asked the spin-doctor. Isn't the term "civil war" an oxymoron? Wasn't Walt Whitman the guy who created all of those over-priced chocolate candy sampler packages and, as tokens of appreciation, had schools name after him?)