Posted on 08/07/2020 9:01:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s probably apocryphal, but I’ve heard of primitive cultures where the number system is: “1, 2, many”.
Not gonna get to the Moon with that.
The dumbest people are the easiest to control and exploit.
Homework: 2+2+4=8
Exam: Billy is 7, his train is 12 minutes early. Calculate the mass of the sun.
I remember having discussions with my sons regarding the numerical value of ‘few’, ‘several’, and ‘many’. Personally I tend to think of ‘few’ as less than 5, ‘several’ as 6-8, and ‘many’ as more than those.
To each his own ...
Idiots.
2+2 = 22
I’m with you on that.
“Katya Rapoport Sedgwick is a writer from San Francisco Bay Area. She has published at The Daily Caller and Legal Insurrection.”
So a person with NO BACKGROUND in education or how children learn (or at least doesn’t disclose it) is telling our EXPERTS, the men and women who operate our public schools and educate our children, how to do their jobs. Pathetic.
(ok, before you barf, consider that everyone on this site who still sends their kids to these schools must think the above, or something close to it - otherwise they’d keep their kids out)
“He further stated that of course arithmetic is cultural because we belong to the culture that understands what two and two add up to.”
Math is not cultural but rather universal. These boneheads usually go on to suggest that we can never translate language accurately from one culture to another, but mathematics defies that postmodern precept. We can all understand it unequivocally, without question of culture. Mathematics is not in the realm of culture, in fact, it is beyond culture. And mathematics is also trans historical — it is timeless truth.
I do so want to make a sale to Kareem Carr and explain that since 2 + 2 = 5, she doesn’t get any change. I would bet my life that she would insist that 2 + 2 = 4.
Surely, one of these has got to go.
One of these was Kareem Carr who, according to his profile, is a Ph.D. statistics student at Harvard University He offered several examples of situations in which he claimed 2+2=5.
Imagine spending $800,000 on a Harvard Ph.D, only to have it have leas value then that of a high school dropout who sells fresh farm fertilizer.
When we were homeschooling in the 1990s and I had to have a lot of interaction with the public school system, I could have easily predicted this. Simply the logical progression of the inanities that I heard then. I started to say The logical conclusion, but sadly I think we are a long way from conclusion in regards the dumbing-down of our students.
Just think folks, in a few years we will have teachers incapable of doing mathematics teaching mathematics to children. We are rapidly regressing into a primitive superstitious society.
This is not new. My wife is a math teacher, and math is racist since you don’t need to count in Africa.
That was an actual response from a single mom at a parent teachers conference.
The African immigrants I work with find american africans horrific.
School: 2x4=8
This is not to say that one cannot calculate the right answer using the C.C. method, but it seems to me, the parents I’ve talked to, and the kids themselves when I’ve subbed, it makes simple things much more difficult. The kids actually thank me for showing them how I learned it—back when mastodons roamed the earth.
Seltsam, im Nebel zu wandern.
I’ve seen examples of that stupid math; takes seven minutes to explain how to subtract 257 from 358.
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