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Brainetics Commercial - Your Kids
| Brainetics Commercial A large group of pre-teen girls getting faint. They jump up and down and scream and fan each other. It's a concert for the latest boy band, right? Well, in most cases, but in this case, it's the participants in the commercial for BRAINIACS, as teeny-boppers get all emotional and giggly because they've managed to memorize the square root of an incredibly complex problem. Let me state going into this, I have tutored for many years, and I absolutely love any program that helps kids learn advanced math concepts and helps them to master basic memorization. And at the same time, I absolutely was annoyed to no end by this commercial. Sorry, just no fan of shrieking girls, even when they're shrieking over the value of pi. Other little things annoyed me, too. For instance, when the announcer talked about squaring a 3 digit number in your head without a calculator. Umm, as opposed to squaring it in your head WITH a calculator? If you used a calculator, doesn't that mean it wasn't in your head? And doesn't that mean, therefore, that this statement by a man advertising an educational product was redundant? But by far, the part that annoyed me most was when the man asked a classroom how much is 61 divided by 91, and he applauded when a boy said. 6703296. That's fine—except it's wrong. It's .6703297 (if you're rounding up). Not griping about the 6 instead of the 7 as the lack of the decimal. Guess the producer of the commercial just forgot. Guess he needs BRAINETICS. Outstanding <b>...</b> |
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