Posted on 12/09/2021 10:32:30 AM PST by workerbee
US sailors who were good at math brought down the Soviet Union. Communists fear anyone who knows their way around a slide rule.
‘puts American kids at a global disadvantage’
For the left, that’s a feature, not a bug.
True. But even the septic tank guy has to calculate chemical mixes. And the Minister has to add up the donos.
It’s politicians who cause the most harm because of math deprivation.
How can math be racist? “Arabic numerals” were invented by People of Color (in India, not in the Arabic-speaking Middle East).
If you can be any gender you feel like and there are about 70 genders, I suppose there are no absolutes anymore.
“I personally watched “slower” people drop out of rigorous mathematics courses and majors when I was in college 40 years ago. The progression goes: start as a math major, if you can’t hack it, then become a Math Ed major. If you can’t hack that, then become an El Ed major with a concentration in bulletin boards. “
Nailed it. As a math/physics undergrad and a PhD in EE who chaired a EE dept not that long ago, those frosh math courses are grand predictors in separating future scientists from future politicians/eddikators/media types.
Actually, a lot of people are confounded with percent problems that they don’t understand.
One of the issues I’ve seen is the question of whether the base for the percent calculation is the old number (usually) or the new number (when you want to confuse someone).
In your problem, 75 is offered for something which costs 56. So the % should be based on the 56. 19 is what % of 56. But that is not what is in question, the question is what % of the 75 is to be returned? 19 is what % of 75. When the cost is 56. To me the issue really is why is the % change important?
I graduated in Civil Engineering many years ago. In one of my Freshman courses the professor said that two-thirds of those in attendance will not get to the advanced engineering courses. He was right, maybe even understated. Many wanna-be engineers soon become Business majors.
Only 796. Out of how many? We’ve already lost.
Sometimes, even that level is not the minimal level:
They have been indoctrinated into thinking they are some kind of expert in mathematics when all they have is an education degree.
Our teacher friend told us how that seems to work in California. The newest teacher on the staff gets to teach math. Her daughter was a rookie teacher and was terrible in math. Yet she was the math teacher at supposedly a good public school. So her daughter called her father, a retired pilot both AF and private to help explain her weekly lessons.
She did that for 3 years until another rookie came to work and became the “new math” teacher.
Calc II was the weed out course when I was in school. That and Physics I & II (calc-based & taken concurrently with Calc I & II). No one held your hand back in those days. No idea what it is like today, but the material "should" be identical. It seemed that once I made it through those courses everything became easy. It is probably more like I straightened out of a lot bad habits from high school then things became easier; plus I learned how to really study.
Futile effort on the part of these college professors. If the fools pushing the woke math movement were amenable to reason and common sense, they would not be pushing woke math. These people have an agenda, and it involves total destruction of everything.
During World War Two, I heard that school boards cut teachers’ salaries by 10%. After the war, they increased the teachers’ salaries by 10%. Then the school boards wondered by the teachers were fussing.
Think of the structures and other items designed by engineers using slide rules to three significant figures. When I went to college we labored through five place logarithms.
Sweet Nostalgia!
Without Arabs postulating zero there would be no math….how racist is that?
Stupid people doing stupid stuff
Tha illustrates my point exactly
woke math = return to middle ages
People should be able to validate the change they get when paying cash.
A friend has dubbed American public schools as failure factories
There was a singer named Aaliyah who wanted to take a plane one night. The pilot said your entourage is too big for my plane. She insisted they all fly. The plane got off the ground, then it crashed, killing her.
Math and gravity are hard.
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