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This may be a trivial truth but it's a deep and important one, precisely because it's one that people VERY FREQUENTLY forget (the laughable aphorism "Numbers don't lie")
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Missed the context, but I assume you are arguing about teaching math with someone who has never taught math? Cause I’ve taught math. Everything you are saying is just common sense (not the Orwell thing, the math stuff)
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Anybody who has ever had to build a house knows how quickly straight lines and right angles prove themselves to be neither of those things. You're always trying, but even the nicest house you've ever seen isn't perfectly squared up.
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Right - and then it sinks!
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Thank you!!!! At one point I told my entire class "There is no such thing as ZERO amount of something." *blink* "There is only an amount of something so small that we cannot detect it with our current methods." *squint* OKAY - let me explain.
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Well of course. Any "something" can be treated algebraically the way a variable is, and the product is 0. 0X = 0. 0" = 0. 0 Penguins = 0. A lack of penguins has no penguinness the way 2 or 3 penguins would. There is no penguinness to an empty room where penguins might have been.
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