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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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 @borrfdad and
I'm equating learning solid fundamentals in a variety of subjects and skills to having a wider array of choice for career path and educational pursuits. If half of kids graduate and can't do basic math, that's terrible. Sorry kids, you can't be engineers, accountants, architects
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Yeah and if some sidebar about teaching you that the Aztec numeral system existed successfully derails all that then you're a shitty teacher and you don't actually know what you're doing when "teaching math"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
Reminds me of a history field trip my class went on, which included a reenactment of a 1910 classroom. One of the lessons was arithmetic in old money, and a *lot* of people made carry mistakes because they treated a shilling as having 10 pence in it
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