Posted on 07/15/2022 11:25:14 PM PDT by rintintin
Way right Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday claimed he has “woke math’s” number, and he doesn’t like it.
He railed about the mysterious mathematics Friday in a speech in Tampa to a group of conservative Moms for Liberty who are opposed to several aspects of education.
DeSantis was unable to elucidate exactly what “woke math’ is. He indicated that it’s math with little regard for correct calculations, which was news to the world.
“I’m just thinking to myself like, 2 + 2 equals 4. It’s not 2 + 2 equals: Well how do you feel about that? Is that an injustice?” he “explained.”
“No. We gotta teach the kids to get the right answer.”
He boasted that Florida sent “woke math” textbooks back to publishers. They “took the woke out and sent us back normal math books,” DeSantis insisted.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
4 more years...
desantis for florida governor 2022...
florida first!... 😎
Math and spelin’ is raciss anyway.
The new math.
How many times can 16 go into 40?
Saxon Math
5/4 thru high school
My son just stopped by to thank me for his good homeschooled math education. He just sat for a license exam in his field. Aced it.
HuffPoo and Yahoo: bastions of Newspeak.
My son came home from school one day all confused.
He had a math question for homework.
It was something like this:
2,846 divided by 649.
Estimate the answer.
He said, Dad, the way they are teaching us to do this makes no sense. What should I do?
I told him to put the answer down as 1.
He told me that was not the right answer.
I said, Son, it’s an estimate. Not a very good estimate, but an estimate. So he did.
Of course, I got called into a meeting with the teacher. We went back and forth over math being absolutes and “fuzzy math” being nonsense.
Finally, she was just angry, and said to me in a raised voice, What do YOU know about estimating?
Well I pulled out my business card and gave it to her.
It had my name, company name and my job title: Estimator.
I never heard any of her nonsense again.
Its a good question and you are a poor estimator.
The correct answer is 4 because 5 is too much.
“my job title: Estimator.”
Perfect! (and LOL)
The correct answer is 4 because 5 is too much.
= = =
Not really.
4 is not enough.
5 is too much.
Which is preferred? Too much or too little?
The estimate of 1 was perfect because it exposed the baloney being presented.
PS, my estimate was 4 1/2.
Well, in all fairness, I did say that it was not a very good estimate...lol
Now write something with way left Democrat.
Is this a Yahoo article or a Huffington Post article?
Why do people promote Yahoo and elevate it as the leading news source instead of just posting links to the actual articles?
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