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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Replying to @arthur_affect @borrfdad and
Nice cop out. I have not studied math beyond high school Calculus. But I do teach high school kids. So I know what is practicable, and what they need. And pushing dumb ideas like replacing useful math skills with cultural posturing drags down their success.
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Replying to @CanuckPlucky @borrfdad and
No, I think you're obviously conflating what you're equipped to teach and what you can easily show improvement on in various metrics with some objective understanding of "what students need to know"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
I remember learning the ancient Aztec number system in primary school, it wasn't the strawman you're making of it (it was spending like one day looking at it) and if you can't deal with that and relate it to the general concept of mathematical abstraction you're a shitty teacher
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
Learning how to use a simple alternate numeral system like Aztec numerals (or for that matter Roman numerals) is an obvious stepping stone to learning simple algebra If you can't make that connection then you had shitty teachers in fourth grade yourselfpic.twitter.com/FOqK15B4i0
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Math is the MOST appropriate place to learn this Learning about how to separate structure from form IS math That lucrative job of coding software everyone wants these days completely depends on this skill
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