Radical Math

[melvin_udall]

"Johnny, what's 2 + 2?"
"An evil Republican bent on world domination?"
"That's right!"

What.
The.
FUCK???I just saw this on Fox News. The teachers everywhere who would teach this should thank the gods they doubtlessly don't believe in that I don't have a kid they'd end up teaching

Comments

[wolfp10]

That reminds me of The Simpsons episode where the school was divided into male and female, and List dressed as a boy because she wanted to learn math, not be indoctrinated with a feminist agenda.

Public schools in this country are doomed. They are less about education and more of a social experiment, or should I say an experiment in socialism.

[wolfp10]

*Lisa

[wellarmedsmurf]

Might I suggest The underground history of education. quite enlightening.

[wellarmedsmurf]

Q: Johnny is offered a job sweeping floors after school. Johnny works 3 hours a day on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, and works 8 hours a day on Saturday. He will be paid 85$ a week. how much is Johnny paid an hour.

A: Johnny should be is making 5$ an hour. However, he will have to account for several additional hours filing out his required tax forms and his work permit. He must also account for how much of his 85$ will be taken for taxes, driving his hourly wage even lower. He knows those taxes fund the bureaucrats who will probably use it to shut down his employer for paying less than the federal minimum wage. Johnny decides to stay home and play xbox instead.

[melvin_udall]

Yes, I know. Qualifications be darned so long as they are in the anti-Christian Club? *rolleyes*

There are a very few athiests I have encountered that weren't just arrogant assholes rebelling against Mommy and Daddy church. Those few who aren't I have come to at least partially respect. I am comfortable believing little if any behind this movement would be any of those few.

The point of the "gods they doubtlessly don't believe in" comment was that these are the-religion-of-liberalism secular progressives. *rolleyes*

Seriously, cheering against all things religion aside, do you really agree with this?

This is the Creationism of the Secular Progressive Faith.

[melvin_udall]

NOte: That second rolleyes isn't supposed to be there

Real world examples ...

[anonymous]

to teach any subject are better than random concepts. Think about the kids who can't add 3 digit numbers on a worksheet in class but can explain to you how baseball statistics are computed or can not read on their grade level unless it has to do with dinosaurs, any one of which they could spell for you and explain the derivation of the name. After reading through many of the math concepts from the link given in your blurb, I think any of them would enable students to not only learn but retain the math concept as well as using higher level thinking to achieve that learning. That is something I can say did not happen in any of my math classes where all I remember is sitting there wondering why I would ever need to know how to compute the length of a hypotenuse.

Re: Real world examples ...

[melvin_udall]

Except they aren't real world concepts. They are leftist fantasies in pursuit of a flawed ideology.

When the "real world concepts" are a hopelessly one-sided fantasy they are doing no service to the children, and could care less if they were. It's taking away from the math to indoctrinate children, and it's sickening. Look for the section where they address how to weigh whether the math or the social message is more important when creating the lesson. Read that again. Whether the math is more important for the math lesson.

This goal could be accomplished without an agenda. Your example makes that argument for me. Sports, nature, guns, building, cars, literally everything in the entire world is math. Examples to make it interesting, if that's the crutch a teacher must lean on to accomplish their task (I'd like them to meet my Algebra teacher, Mr. Klessel, who did just fine), exist literally everywhere one can look.

This technique is specifically about pushing the agenda. It is worse than teaching the theory of Creationism