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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      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

      3 replies 4 retweets 90 likes
    2. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      Sounds like a fun argument to have with a street vendor when purchasing food upon encountering less than careful rounding.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      It is only by having some understanding of this concept that you would have any basis for having the argument!

      1 reply 2 retweets 62 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      My God I'm so fucking sick of conservatives ranting about "New Math" or "Common Core Math" as though the "good ol' fashioned cipherin'" they think is so important to teach kids isn't the *least relevant part of mathematical education by far*

      6 replies 15 retweets 118 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      It has never, in history, been less important to be able to recite your times tables It has never, in history, been less important to be able to take out a piece of paper and perform long division by hand

      6 replies 11 retweets 104 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      Even in the olden days before everyone was carrying a powerful computer with them in their pocket everywhere they went "Math errors" as the result of *conceptual* errors were far more common and damaging than actual arithmetic flubs

      1 reply 8 retweets 107 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      Forgetting to carry the 1 while multiplying two numbers gets you a wrong answer within the same order of magnitude as the right answer Multiplying the *wrong two numbers* is a far more consequential mistake

      1 reply 4 retweets 86 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      And the best way to build a foundation to avoid such errors is to start off teaching children to THINK To understand that mathematics, including even simple arithmetic, is a CONSTRUCTED TOOL Which is what all that newfangled nonsense about set theory and whatnot is about

      4 replies 4 retweets 102 likes
    9. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      That CONSTRUCTED TOOL creates a meaningful SHARED UNDERSTANDING

      4 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    10. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @arthur_affect @perdricof

      Also: if you have this many sticks: || and I give you this many sticks || you have this many sticks |||| and it’s a good thing we have the consistently used signifiers of 2 and 4 to communicate that.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      It is useful, but that use has sharp limits, and a smart person is someone who must constantly be thinking about those limits What if I break a stick in half and then trade it for two of your sticks

      3:52 AM - 1 Aug 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

          (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)

          1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
        3. (((Charlie Mas)))‏ @charlie_mas 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

          As George Carlin said, if you break a crumb in half you don't have two half-crumbs, you have two crumbs.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        2. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

          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.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @Aya62335284 @arthur_affect @perdricof

          A general public will understand that a stick broken in half is half a stick.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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