You get that, right Do you understand I'm talking about a completely commonsense, real-life problem here That there are plenty of situations where dogmatically saying 2+2 = 4 is a way for me to cheat you
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The more general way to phrase what I'm talking about is "Weigh them all together" If the scale has a fudge factor then adding up separate results from it will make it worse But the "2+2=5" idea is absolutely an accurate way of describing it
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(This came up on Square One TV when I was a kid Months typically have four seven-day weeks, plus a few days extra It is very tempting to round down and just say "one month = four weeks" But if you do that for the whole year, you've cheated someone out of 4 weeks out of 52)
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(That particular example, even though you'd think it's a fucking obvious one, is one that's been used to fuck over uneducated people in the wild before Hence you always count the number of weeks in a year by dividing 365 / 7 = 52 plus a day, not by adding up the months)
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Replying to @XFitNYC @arthur_affect and
I just want to know what "Western Math" is?
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So - I looked at the actual proposal and it's using "Western" in quotes because a great deal of mathematics is NOT remotely "western" and it's origins - but our text books often pretend it is and hold up knowledge of our retelling as "intelligence".pic.twitter.com/u8KAIxd91q
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The curriculum is obviously NOT demonizing MATH! Learning it is an act of liberation = doesn't sound like the curriculum is calling math racist, does it?pic.twitter.com/9aaZHH6f9O
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Reading through the proposal - I suspect that in practice it will include a great deal of History of Mathematics (which is fantastic) and simply use socially relevant contexts while teaching the basics. Those approaches are tried and true ways of keeping students motivated.
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In many ways it's MUCH more pedagogically sound than either using contrived contexts or none at all. These students will likely be better bullshit spotters than your average math students since they are diving into real-life applications & critical thinking immediately.
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Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament started this, I think, making the very controversial statement that a math curriculum should make History of Mathematics *central* to its organization and content, rather than some afterthought you take as an elective in college
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MAMelby and
In much the same way that art or music are never taught without art history or musical history Math isn't some set of procedures you're programming kids to perform like they're components in a mainframe It's a field of human endeavor done by specific people for specific reasons
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MAMelby and
You wouldn't just try to mechanically teach someone to paint as this isolated thing that has nothing to do with the painters of the past that made painting into a tradition that people wanted to join in the first place
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