[Ignatius J Reilly]

"I counted the illustrations, and I think I came up with about 10% - hardly a reflection of reality or proportional representation in the population"

Now that would be a good practical application of statistical methods for students right there.

I have no problem with showing the diversity of our culture through pictures in the books and/or word problems, it should however be an accurate representation of society, not skewed. I also think school should NEVER be a place of any sort of discriminatory practice or bias. However some of this just goes too far, as if teaching math wasn't difficult enough.

[moog]

I have no problem with showing the diversity of our culture through pictures in the books and/or word problems, it should however be an accurate representation of society, not skewed. I also think school should NEVER be a place of any sort of discriminatory practice or bias. However some of this just goes too far, as if teaching math wasn't difficult enough.


I agree with you for the most part. I'm surprised actually. With the no child's behind left act, I wouldn't think they would have time for this. We should keep the "politics" (please not the quotations) on both sides out of school.