I recall that it was just a few years ago that this Gemma cartoon at the top made me look up and become acquainted with the term “Zimmer frame”. Then some time later I was in the audience for a Zoom based presentation by a mobility expert for our senior center, who at one point was talking about different kinds of walker, Rollator(c) and so on, and what you can do with each – like, take them on a bus? I raised my hand and asked, How does the Zimmer frame fit in? They had never heard the term! But did look it up, and dropped me a note saying thanks for bringing that to my notice.
Mitch: Weirdly, Zimmer is an American company, but “Zimmer frame” seems to be a British term. I guess it’s like “Canadian bacon”, which is neither Canadian nor bacon (and yes, I know how it got called that).
Those kids may not be at the abstract level of cognitive development (a la Piaget). Variables don’t really make sense if you’re concrete operational.
If X is tired of being in these math problems, it needs an X-it strategy.
Canadian bacon and streaky bacon are just different cuts of pig meat. I read that the name simply came from it being imported from Toronto. Did you have a different, more interesting tale, phsiii?
Boise Ed: Right, during WWII Canada sent smoked pork loins to England, and it got called “Canadian bacon”. But it’s really not bacon. It’s not even back bacon. It’s just a form of ham. Like, pork chops aren’t bacon either, right?
Just so, phsiii. (Personally, I prefer Canadian bacon to streaky bacon, but the latter is what we have available here.)
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I recall that it was just a few years ago that this Gemma cartoon at the top made me look up and become acquainted with the term “Zimmer frame”. Then some time later I was in the audience for a Zoom based presentation by a mobility expert for our senior center, who at one point was talking about different kinds of walker, Rollator(c) and so on, and what you can do with each – like, take them on a bus? I raised my hand and asked, How does the Zimmer frame fit in? They had never heard the term! But did look it up, and dropped me a note saying thanks for bringing that to my notice.
Mitch: Weirdly, Zimmer is an American company, but “Zimmer frame” seems to be a British term. I guess it’s like “Canadian bacon”, which is neither Canadian nor bacon (and yes, I know how it got called that).
Those kids may not be at the abstract level of cognitive development (a la Piaget). Variables don’t really make sense if you’re concrete operational.
If X is tired of being in these math problems, it needs an X-it strategy.
Canadian bacon and streaky bacon are just different cuts of pig meat. I read that the name simply came from it being imported from Toronto. Did you have a different, more interesting tale, phsiii?
Boise Ed: Right, during WWII Canada sent smoked pork loins to England, and it got called “Canadian bacon”. But it’s really not bacon. It’s not even back bacon. It’s just a form of ham. Like, pork chops aren’t bacon either, right?
Just so, phsiii. (Personally, I prefer Canadian bacon to streaky bacon, but the latter is what we have available here.)