Übercrawl

Category: NEW

Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) prepares, trains, and places women in careers in the skilled construction, utility, and maintenance trades, helping women achieve economic independence and a secure future for themselves and their families.

  • Nail Penetration and Screw Holes

    only touchups needed

    Last class, we wandered the maze, and calculated the missing sides and perimeters for five shapes (LCTs). Some groups got them all right, everyone got most of them right.

    Even though adding feet and inches is easy on its own, juggling the sides of irregular shapes makes those calculations more difficult. The same is true about today’s lesson: adding/subtracting fractions to figure out how far a penny sized nail will go through the wall, or which drill bit you will need for making a countersink hole.

    3 Pieces of the Puzzle

    If you felt frustrated with last week’s green math problems, your feelings probably didn’t stem from the math itself, which was nothing more than punching in three numbers, the times and equal buttons on your calculator. More likely, the problem was finding the right numbers to punch. Not knowing how to find them in an online environment invariably leads to a lot of mouse clicking. How to “quit the clik,” and quickly find the right numbers?

    The vocabulary of green math, like organic chemistry — the U-factors, heat capacities, spec sheets — is like trying to find the right number on a piece of paper written in a foreign language. But that’s exactly what trades math is, no textbook, feet on a worksite, hand on your toolbox, trying to use what’s under your helmet to figure out answers to questions barked at you by your foreperson, while the din of construction vibrates your very bones. Overcoming your frustrations, finding the right numbers, that alone will justify your journey’d six-figured salary. Trades math = career security, for you and your family. Trades math is real.

  • GCP 03-21 Trades Math Final

    Here’s what to do:

    1. Click on your ID number under the Quiz to download your quiz.
    2. If you need any reference materials, click on the ‘Materials’ link on the top menu.
    3. Once you have completed the quiz, upload your answers by clicking on your ID number under the Answer Form.

    Quiz

    Answer Form

    I will be on Zoom from noon to 2PM today, if you have any questions.

  • Drydocking the ubercrawl

    Drydocking the ubercrawl

    Two weekends ago, students studied for my 7/21 final exam
    so close to 50K

    It’s a little disconcerting, looking at my Jetpack dailys, and now seeing nothing. For over a year, my nightly decompression ritual included eyes surveying its charts. Seeing evidence of how my ship tacked from one Zoom box to the next, day to day, week to week, month to month, my teaching activities transformed into web traffic, believing my labor choices still have value, a little boost into the next day.  Now tomorrow means microwaving the ubercrawl, for my students’ privacy — I don’t have any classes/deliverables for almost a month, right now. (calendar)

    With the ubercrawl at rest for the first time since January, I will travel to mountains as old as the Ordovician, to a cabin in Penn’s Woods During my retreat, I plan to retack, charting better winds for the next FY.

  • We made it!

    Let’s keep it simple.

    Final page

    Final form Part I | Part II

    Any materials you will need are on the side menu.

    NOTE: If you get a blueprint question that refers to a shape that is NOT A, B, C, D, or E
    Type ‘0’ for your answer and move on. Your score will be scaled accordingly.

    P.S. The wheels have been falling off my vehicle for weeks now. This class, is my last class, until September. Even though my performance to you has been ragged (just trying to make it to the end…) it is clear to me that this class has been one of my best since the Pandemic started, and I wish each and every one of you the best as you travel your career paths.

    My travels next month will bid a hasty retreat to a cabin deep in the Appalachians.

    The night they ended Prohibition, December 5th 1933 ...
    I still don’t know everyone’s name. Nearing 400 graduating students since COVID hit.