Yes, I understand that you think mathematical education is just a matter of telling kids how to punch numbers into the calculator on their iPhones and that any further thought about the relationship between those abstract functions and the real world is a woke waste of time
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(Counting is a form of measurement, and it is the most imprecise form of measurement All our fancy tools like scales and meter sticks and melting things down and pouring them into graduated cylinders are a response to the fact that counting things is actually pretty hard)
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As George Carlin said, if you break a crumb in half you don't have two half-crumbs, you have two crumbs.
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We’re not having a conversation here about the development of a “smart person” we’re talking about consistent shared understanding among a general public.
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A general public will understand that a stick broken in half is half a stick.
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