The 2+2=5 examples are simply different languages. The symbols look the same, but they have different definitions, therefore different meanings. It is not a ‘new way of knowing’, but simply a different language.
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Replying to @CanuckPlucky @borrfdad and
It’s like reading the word ‘barf’ and saying ‘but that means ‘snow’ in Farsi! You’re excluding all the Farsi people when you teach it with the English meaning. We need to look at Farsi when learning English.
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Replying to @CanuckPlucky @borrfdad and
It’s not that learning Farsi (or base 3) are wrong. It’s that it’s not the convention, so it’s basically a waste of time and effort, for the sole purpose of feeling ‘inclusive’.
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Replying to @CanuckPlucky @borrfdad and
Okay so you're basically saying that it's too much effort to be smart so it's better to be stupid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
No one is saying that small children need to all spend the time and effort required to be bilingual in English and Farsi But becoming conversant with the *concept of multiple languages* is absolutely vital, yes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
A kid isn't fully educated if they don't fully grok the concept that there's nothing inherently funny about the syllable "barf" just because it means one thing in English and a different thing in a different language
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
This isn't about being "sensitive" or "not hurting people's feelings" this is about *not being stupid* Or, as we call it, cultural competence You are advocating *being stupid* (being completely used to one particular system of symbols and unable to think on a level above them)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
It is very easy to be stupid, Americans in particular who rarely get challenged on matters of cultural competence are particularly prone to it -- "I don't have an accent, I talk normally" -- and it is in the long run very dangerous and very harmful
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Replying to @arthur_affect @borrfdad and
Do Americans not have a social studies or geography class where they study other cultures? If they do, and that class is failing, why use math class to teach this? # finishing school without basic math and eng. literacy is staggering. You'd have them run before they can crawl?
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Replying to @CanuckPlucky @borrfdad and
You do not get to lecture me about this after using the term "base-10"
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Despite what it says in my bio I don't actually think I'm a "genius" but I think I know a lot more about a lot more things than most of the Dunning-Kruger dicks who try to lecture me about the ignorance of the masses on Twitter
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