Posted on 11/10/2019 7:39:16 AM PST by robowombat
The square root of 16 is 4 (4 x 4) and the third root of 8 is 2 (2 x 2 x 2). Four plus two is six. Doable for a 17-year old who has been taking mathematics, yes?
No. Only about 37 percent of students answered the question correctly. This percentage is not much above 25 percent, which would have been the number of correct answers if students had simply randomly guessed from the four possible answers provided. We had better either improve math education pronto or start to recruit better-trained students to the state
When I started school slide rules were still king and forced people to do just a little bit of thinking to use them. When I started flying we were taught to use a slide rule type “E6-B flight calculator”, which many people still use. I think that almost complete dependence on electronic devices is likely to be having a detrimental effect on people’s ability to use their brains. And this may be more pronounced in those who had little innate ability to begin with.
'20 racists got into a fight with 20 victims of racist haters. Who won? Show your work.'
lol
you’re on a roll today :)
Find out who is behind all this and you’ll find out what the agenda is. Something like this rarely is because it is a “good idea”.
Liberals are essentially saying that responsible management of taxpayer dollars is racist.
The downward trend of the liberal controlled educational system. Teaching kids about racism is easy. Teaching kids math is hard. Teaching kids that math is racist...priceless.
Math and teaching math has been a bit nuts for many years due, in my opinion, to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. They are convinced that the way math used to be taught and mastered and is all wrong. They hate the boring (and effective) rote memorization of facts and instead love the idea of kids pretty much discovering the patterns inherent in math. While this might be how the math gifted learn, it is not effective for the average math learner.
Half a century ago, long before Common Core, the foisted Modern Math on the schools. Don’t have kids memorize their times tables, instead have them solve problems in base 6—I’m not kidding.
Now, Common Core has ruled that children who haven’t mastered addition be exposed to the concepts of fractions, algebra, and geometry. I know this because I’ve substituted in 2nd grade classrooms where those were the lessons. The result is the kids have been exposed to a mishmash of, to them, unrelated ideas, yet they have not mastered any.
At least half of the 8th graders I’ve subbed for in math class have still not mastered their times tables. Can you imagine how difficult addition of fractions is if one has to think, count on fingers, or use a calculator to solve a problem like 1/3 + 1/10 =?, let alone solve 20 of them? This kind of work was expected to be mastered by the end of 5th grade when I was going to school.
And of course some aboriginal number systems consist of “one, two, three, four, many”—which would make math easier for some kids to master.
Ebonics math is the answer.
Well, racist is better than pervo/trans/homophobic, I guess.
Next thing you know, the number 6 will be classified as a serial six offender.
Didn’t that “mean old racist TRUMP” just sign a bill authorizing the “Hidden Figures” women to receive the highest Civilian award for their NASA government service?
What type of math did they use in figuring out the various formulas for space flight?
https://fox5sandiego.com/2019/11/09/nasas-hidden-figures-to-receive-highest-civilian-award/
They hate math because they’re too stupid to understand it.
How many Navy line officers can use a sextant to calculate ship’s position today?
It seems the answer to your 3d paragraph question is...H1b.
The Chinese must be salivating at our stupidity.
At this rate of self destruction on our part, it shouldn’t be long for them to come in and take over.
Another outrage brought to us by the west coast people of Washington State.
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Teachers are screaming that math is now racist
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Zeros accuse eights of body shaming and spread rumors about them having anorxexia.
Add the square root of 16 and the third root of 8.
Somehow I got -5- i√3.
“Balancing a checkbook be all raciss, yo.”
Yo, Seattle Schools, I got a homework assignment for you.
Research the names, Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden.
Here's a head start for you. There was a book written about them and a movie made about them and President Trump recently awarded them the Congressional Gold Medal for the work they performed while at NASA.
Here's a link to help you with your research....Space.com - NASA's 'Hidden Figures' to be Awarded Congressional Gold Medals
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