It is only by having some understanding of this concept that you would have any basis for having the argument!
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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*
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It’s not constructed by us, it’s discovered.
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Replying to @TrueMetis @arthur_affect and
Who said anyone discovered BEDMAS?
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Replying to @CeJayGe @arthur_affect and
You did, when you claimed math was discovered not constructed. That must include BEDMAS, because if you change around BEDMAS you get massively different results. So they're must have been a discovery that made BEDMAS the correct order of operations.
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I mean what you're talking about is just mathematical notation, not really math itself in any meaningful way But people's unwillingness to tell the difference is definitely part of the problem
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CeJayGe and
Right, but the point is if you use BEDMAS vs some other order of operations you end up with wildly different answers to the same question. So in a discovered rather than constructed system either that wouldn't be true, or there'd be some non-arbitrary reason to use BEDMAS.
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