Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called

Miami Herald ^

[TigerClaws]

Updated 2 hours 51 minutes ago A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student’s homes, according to the Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office.

On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.

Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.

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[freedumb2003]

>>I hope I don’t get busted for carrying a concealed algebra function thingy.
Sir! Drop the Calculus before I go all Trigonometry on your ass!<<

If you jump in your car after Calculus class, you will be cited for drinking and deriving.

[sipow]

Square root most certainly does work for numbers below 0.

[grobdriver]

What you advocate is an illiterate public

Any parent could leave their kids home with the dog and a stack of books and they would turn out better educated than 90% of what public schools produce.

[Daffynition]

[Calvin Locke]

You mean like the news report of that woman crime novelist too ignorant to know the difference between CSA flags and the Norwegian flag?

It's not satire.

[Red Badger]

Better be sure and get a background check before you sell.........AND you should impose a 3 Day Waiting Period, just to be safe!.......................

[freedumb2003]

>>“the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number,...”<<

Not only is that not quite right but what does it tell you when they have to define the meaning of a freaking square root sign?

[Tenacious 1]

Now what would have happened to me if I wrote the square root symbol and the police searched my house? And let say they FOUND firearms?

Don't you have a boat to sink? C'mon, man.

[Red Badger]

Kids nowadays want to know where the batteries are.................

[Tenacious 1]

EVERY number when multiplied by itself equals another number.

1x1=1 ???

Is 1 not a number? Are you racists or prejudice against the #1?

[Daffynition]

You meant *a square root*? eh?

[Red Badger]

Notice this model comes with a stand, for RAPID FIRE CALCULATIONS!................

[boycott]

More proof government should get out of education.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

That looks like a gun?

Well, it’s a good thing they called the cops before it went off and hurt someone.

[rjsimmon]

Trying to decide if your being rational or irrational...

Thank the Lord I'm not imaginary...

Or, am I???

[bert]

Drivel...... balderdash

[gundog]

What about 1?

[hal ogen]

Idiot students...teachers...sheriff deputies. ALL idiots in this instance.

[Rebelbase]

As was noted on other threads about this:

√ is a weapon of math instruction.

[rjsimmon]

If you jump in your car after Calculus class, you will be cited for drinking and deriving.

Oooh! Badum Tsshhhh!