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Posted on 12/13/2022 3:57:49 AM PST by DFG
You can ask him, or I’ll post it here. What’ll you have?
Daniel Archer, vice president of academic affairs for the Kansas Board of Regents, said that algebra is not always necessary for many students. Only 20 percent of majors require higher-level math beyond algebra, KCUR reported.
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In a corrected statement, Daniel Archer, vice president of academic affairs for the Kansas Board of Regents, said history is not always necessary for many students. Only 20 percent of majors require history beyond the comic book level, KCUR reported. He also claimed that similar findings are found across all the disciplines, except sadomasochism, where discipline is key.
Maybe I’ll ask him when he comes home.
Is it safe to Google it? (You never know - LOL!)
Same. I was in college over 20 years ago, and as I went up the ladder, the demographics were starkly different.
You’ll have to explain what “QED” means as well.
and when they see the answer, it’s like they just saw a magic tick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIxYCDbRGJc
Makes sense. “College algebra” classes are geared for and populated by students who couldn’t get it down in middle or high school.
Your other freeper name is TexasGurl24, isn’t it? She, too, was a snotty little girl who wanted people to think she was something she wasn’t, a lawyer in her case. You’re not nearly as educated as you want people to think. Insulting other people and claiming to be taking a high road is transparently nothing but ignorance.
You still owe the other freeper an apology, not to mention you owe all Americans an apology when you claimed someone who doesn’t know Algebra shouldn’t be an American with freedoms of self-governance. You don’t know Algebra, so I guess you should be a slave by your illogical statement. If you did know Algebra then you would know a master plumber uses it every day.
It can’t be abolished by presidential decree i.e., EO. To get rid of it would require legislation, much harder to do. The cries “you’re harming the children’s” would be loud and continuous! It would be hard for a professional politician no matter how conservative to stand up to that.
Well, kids haven’t been taught civics for decades and look at the result—people who haven’t the foggiest clue hoe our government works but they still vote.
So now kids who couldn’t balance a checkbook if their lives depended on it wont be taught math either.
What could possibly go wrong?
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Rbt. Heinlein “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long”
I don’t blame the students. They are being defrauded and abused by bureaucrats. How stupid are the teachers? Very very stupid.
“And it’s not relevant for their fields.”
If that’s the case then drop all the BS social engineering woke garbage for STEM students.
QED= Proof
LOL, not to me. To the person you were hypothetically not giving a job to...
"Come on kid, try this cigarette. Take a little sip of this whiskey. Take a puff on this joint...you'll like it."
Telling kids that some subjects are simply beyond their abilities is child abuse...bigotry of low expectations.
I needed 4 math credits-algebra, geometry, probability and statistics- along with a research design credit just for a undergrad psych degree in the 1990s. It was totally doable prior to smartphones, TikTok and YouTube.
can’t
I just showed this to my high school sophomore, who took his pre-calculus mid-term today. He looked at the first line and said “That’s impossible.”
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