Posted on 07/13/2023 8:13:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Teacher: Use the word before in a sentence.
Tyreese: Two plus two before.
Why waste the tax dollars on dumbing down the already dumb? Anyone marginalized by the subject of mathematics whether black, white, or oriental either does give a damn about learning or is too low IQ’d to learn. This only ends up hurting the kids that are capable and wanting to learn.
My experience is that students find “word problems” more difficult than “plug and chug,” for instance.
But everybody hates word problems.
100%
Decades-old arguments over the purpose of math education and the meaning of equity.
All can be found in the book 1984
Don’t raise the bridge, lower the water.
I have done accounting since graduating high school-—will be 66 years in August when I started first full time job.
MATH is MATH.
Either your checkbook balances or it doesn’t
Either you got billed correctly for the inventory you bought-—or you didn’t.
Either your sales register balances at the end of the day-—OR IT DOESN’T.
“Close” only counts in hand grenades/Atom bombs/ Farts-—NOT when running a business.
There is NO GREY-—IT IS BLACK & WHITE....and it has ZERO to do with race.
MOST of them cannot read an analog CLOCK.
nope, nor read cursive
they can’t read the Declaration of Independence from the paper it’s written on...
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