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Discouraging Students from Taking Math
Coryoth writes "Following on from a previous story about UK schools encouraging students to drop mathematics, an article in The Age accuses Australian schools of much the same. The claim is that Australian schools are actively discouraging students from taking upper level math courses to boost their academic results on school league tables. How widespread is this phenomenon? Are schools taking similar measures in the US and Canada?"
After a few generations of not taking any math, administrators won't be able to figure out why not taking math increased their average scores in the first place. At that point, they'll re-institute a math program, probably cutting out history, since that's over and done with.
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It was sweet. I went from six classes to four.
Oh... wait... I thought it read "discouraging students from taking meth."
My mistake.
Math discourages you!
We should cut more of those boring science classes and replace them with something genuinely useful, such as football and liberal arts.
I, for one, welcome our new woefully innumerate overlords.
I worked in a lumber yard one summer when I was in college. I worked on the end of line that spit out two by fours cut from logs. The pallets were always of different height, but always the same width - 10 units. At the end, you had to paint the total on the side. So if it was 14 units high, you'd have 140 pieces. Me being "just a kid" wasn't trusted to paint the number. The "senior" person busted out a calculator every fucking time. To multiply a number under 20 (the max) by 10.
Stick it to da' man: factor a polynomial!
I drank what? -- Socrates
As long as they do not try to discourage them from taking Bath...
This reminds me of the quote:
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house." -Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", Robert A. Heinlein
Thank you for your insightful comment!
"Hermione, you're a girl." "Well spotted Ron!"
Hey, lissen, assolle!
I have studied Mathematic! And Physic too.
You haven't. So shut ups.
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>>>half-line r = pi/2 has ever made me a more rounded individual or better person.
Huh? trying to square the circle, are you? Rounded you say?
(sigh) Must be a sine of the times...
"Know thyself" - Socrates.
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Yes. In the same way 'ads' is short for 'adsvert' and 'abs' is short for 'absdominal muscle'.
I'll probably be modded down for this...