Posted on 04/02/2010 6:28:08 AM PDT by myknowledge
SACRAMENTO, April 1 (UPI) -- People in the Sacramento area might be pardoned for asking if the folks who publish their schools' error-filled math books are smarter than a fifth-grader.
The Sacramento Bee reported Thursday the new Macmillan/McGraw-Hill math books distributed to second-graders at 79 city-area elementary schools in the Sacramento City and Folsom Cordova districts include the equation: five times three equals five.
It's not an isolated faux pas, either. Folsom Cordova District Assistant Superintendent Janie DeArcos says fourth-graders have found 90 mistakes in their textbook and related materials, the newspaper said.
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Seriously, this is lib public education at its best...
...the globalist elite are dumbing down American schoolchildren by design, so that the next generation can be dumb enough to become slaves.
They owned the bulk of the textbook publishing companies since WWI.
I remember spending hours working on a math problem trying to get the answer that was in the book and I couldn’t get it to work. The next day in class the professor tried to do the problem on the board and had the same result. The book had so many errors that we would do the example problems in class to determine which ones were wrong before assigning them as homework.
As long as they are taught to have sex with anyone and get an abortion without parental notification through the school, then nothing else matters to them.
Dumbing down America continues.
I consistantly failed algebra, so ... I can only assume you're posting an actually printed example from the book ... and it's wrong ... right?
All my math books were hand-me-downs from my valedictorian sister- no problem- she had all the answers in the margins.
In those days kids used the same textbooks for ten or more years before the pages all fell out.
Fact: Taiwan (Republic of China) has a much more advanced public educational system than the United States.
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It’s simply an example of an incorrect algebraic equation.
What do you mean by “advanced”?
I think government should get out of the school business.
Yep.
When was the last time government did not have a hand in the school business?
That one is awesome. Did it really come out of that textbook?
No. The images of two math textbook covers I posted were random.
That would be great. No more school taxes. Parents pay for their children's education.
Joe Biden must've been the editor. A 3-letter word "J-O-B-S".
And here the MSM nationwide has been beating up on the Texas school textbook "controversy".
But then you don’t get exposed to the new math where 5x3=5
Note that substituting the expected answer, x = (pi+3)/2, into
(3-x)2 = (pi-x)2
gives
( (3-pi)/2 )2 = ( (pi-3)/2 )2
which is true.
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