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California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash
nytimes ^ | 11/06/2021

Posted on 11/06/2021 6:49:09 AM PDT by devane617

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To: Bigg Red

What’s with all the double and quadruple postings this morning?


21 posted on 11/06/2021 7:04:48 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My favorite word is Tweezer)
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To: devane617
My son was placed in a TAG (talented and gifted) math program in public school. It took them a year to recognize it and when he entered the high school math class in eighth grade, the seniors beat him up everyday.

After a few years, the public school ran out of math classes to challenge him, so he transferred to the local community college in his junior year and finished high school with dual college credits. The high school pressured him so hard to stay in high school, all about the money.

22 posted on 11/06/2021 7:05:11 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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23 posted on 11/06/2021 7:06:07 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Lazamataz

Actually, the answer is 0, since her pimp took the rest...


24 posted on 11/06/2021 7:06:31 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Bigg Red
Just as well they're not teaching "California woke math":

California woke math

25 posted on 11/06/2021 7:07:05 AM PDT by glennaro (Although I don't believe there are big conspiracies, neither do I believe there are big coincidences)
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To: devane617

America had better pray that some of its best children reach their full potential, somehow.

The Bell curve is a cold, hard reality. Cutting off the upper end just so that some deranged “educators” can poke at healing sores condemns everyone to live with less than even the average.


26 posted on 11/06/2021 7:07:38 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: devane617

premise seems to be that everyone is good at everything, and kids are interchangeable parts


27 posted on 11/06/2021 7:09:34 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: devane617; CodeToad; Joe Brower
From a link within the LAT story:


28 posted on 11/06/2021 7:09:39 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: I-ambush

the very same math (calculus) that is performed on paper in physics and such are performed in (slow “learners”)their heads while on the football field and basketball court;distance, velocity and acceleration of the the ball and persons, requires differentiation and integration. They run away from in the classroom and to it on field and court.


29 posted on 11/06/2021 7:10:14 AM PDT by jimfr
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To: Lazamataz

How dare you assume there is a correct answer! Racist!


30 posted on 11/06/2021 7:11:38 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: devane617
The top mathematicians tend to do their very best work when they are young. Pandering to this Marxist Agenda ends up depriving the World of advancements in a difficult subject. Who knows what we shall never have because of nonsense like this?
31 posted on 11/06/2021 7:12:50 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Lazamataz

The answer is -$100. She had to give all of the remaining money to her pimp plus she owed him mo.


32 posted on 11/06/2021 7:13:23 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Lazamataz

How much did she end up with?


After he beat the living s..t out of her for holding out on him, she kept her life. Her pimp needs the money he has to beat out of her everyday - bit of a bore, but he does need the exercise.


33 posted on 11/06/2021 7:15:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: devane617

We’re sinking faster and faster into the dystopian abyss. Next stop, The Twilight Zone.


34 posted on 11/06/2021 7:17:09 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Travis McGee; Lazamataz; Liz; LS; SunkenCiv; BenLurkin; Red Badger; Kaslin

Now, plot that same graph for “The race of 100 yard dash winners (over time), the race of NFL wide receivers (since Hayes), the race of NFL defensive cornerbacks, the race(s) of MLB infielders, the race(s) of NBA players, the races of Olympic swimmers-gymnasts-field event winners-archers-ice hockey teams-downhill skiers.


35 posted on 11/06/2021 7:19:11 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Travis McGee

They are eliminating all such standardized tests so you won’t have to look at discomforting data in the future.


36 posted on 11/06/2021 7:19:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: Leaning Right

Calculus can easily be done with an Excel spreadsheet. Like a sucker I sat through those classes with one problem covering 3 walls!


37 posted on 11/06/2021 7:21:17 AM PDT by gr8eman (When you're bought and paid for by commies...you're a commie!)
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To: windsorknot

“We’re sinking faster and faster into the dystopian abyss. Next stop, The Twilight Zone.”

Perhaps, if the long term effects for the vaccinated of ADE are what some postulate, we are beyond the “Twilight Zone” and entering “The Walking Dead”.


38 posted on 11/06/2021 7:23:49 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: devane617
Stand and Deliver (1988) - IMDb

[Search domain imdb.com] https://www.imdb.com › title › tt0094027

Stand and Deliver: Directed by Ramón Menéndez. With Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris.

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus in LA.

Authorities thought that they cheated

Escalante demanded a re-test under controlled supervision

They all passed with top scores again.

39 posted on 11/06/2021 7:26:51 AM PDT by spokeshave (We would be ahead by banning fossil fools, like Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Leahy, etc.)
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To: The Free Engineer

“No Child Left Behind” was a terrible program. Among other things, it destroyed the trades programs in the schools. NCLB was another idiotic idea by that idiot George W. Bush. It was not a Clinton thing.


40 posted on 11/06/2021 7:29:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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