Notice Math is Racist!

[SlyPokerDog]

Bingo!
And the sad thing is many schools do not have shop classes anymore.

I know Gladstone expanded it to include robotics which is a very cool idea.

 

[riverman]

Music….when you learn that the circle of 5ths is not a drinking game! Music is great for math and geometry....it's like quantum physics in that the possibilities are simply endless

 

[The Professional Fan]

This stuff makes me miss dviss... Its so easy for a white man (me) to look at this and think something, but it would be much more valuable to know what a Black man thinks.

I noticed Dviss not posting. What happened? I missed it.

 

[MarAzul]

I took one shop class realized I am really freaking awful at this and went back into my computer science classes... heh. Still though I feel like I'm so bad at working on anything like, anything wrong happens in the house and I'm just like, hey there are people we can pay to fix that...

Yes! Many people believe that is the correct approach. But, back in the day when income taxes were so high, a little bit of math made me learn to fix a lot of stuff. When you only get to take home about 25% of what you earn, then using it to pay other does truly make the price 4X what cost for you to do it.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Yes! Many people believe that is the correct approach. But, back in the day when income taxes were so high, a little bit of math made me learn to fix a lot of stuff. When you only get to take home about 25% of what you earn, then using it to pay other does truly make the price 4X what cost for you to do it.

It's not that I believe it's the case I'm just terribly unhandy outside of the bedroom. I can't fix stuff or put it together, it's a cheaper venture to buy new things or have someone else fix it most of the time.

 

[MarAzul]

Most kids these days use Metric and Standard AFAIK, we have talked about it multiple times in our engineering meetings

I hate that complexity of both. Especially when you get into areas where metric is really out of place.
Like speed in Kilometers doing Navigation on World Geodetic 84 charts. Where a minute of latitude is a knot mile, commonly accepted as 2000 yards. Where a kilometer is nothing relevant, but they make those charts.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I'm just terribly unhandy outside of the bedroom.

And...exactly why are you telling us how handy you are in the bedroom?

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

I hate that complexity of both. Especially when you get into areas where metric is really out of place.
Like speed in Kilometers doing Navigation on World Geodetic 84 charts. Where a minute of latitude is a knot mile, commonly accepted as 2000 yards. Where a kilometer is nothing relevant, but they make those charts.

I actually kind of like having both, it's a really good introduction to fractions and conversions. I suppose you could make an argument that if everyone used the same units of measures for everything that you wouldn't need conversions, but still that goes beyond standard and metric. Some people use pi, some use tau, some use radians, some use degrees, some use arcseconds, etc.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

And...exactly why are you telling us how handy you are in the bedroom?

My bedroom is awesome it's like nerd heaven I build stuff for that sometimes!

 

[PtldPlatypus]

My bedroom is awesome it's like nerd heaven I build stuff for that sometimes!

Oh--sounded like you were just bragging about...other talents utilized therein.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Oh--sounded like you were just bragging about...other talents utilized therein.

Oh... Well, we'd have to have ask my wife, I'm scared of the answer though, so let's not.

 

[MarAzul]

So, I see no one supporting the Seattle Schools opinion on Math.
Do you suppose there is this huge disconnect between the people of Seattle and the School board?
How does this happen?

 

[MarAzul]

Ok a more direct question for the Progressives.
What the hell is progressive about this action in Seattle?

 

[MarAzul]

What the hell is progressive about this action in Seattle?

No answer hey!
Well not surprising since it sure as hell is no progress at all. But the folly should be progress for those that observe.
There is no standardize human being. We are all created by our creator to fill a role in society where we can. Not your model perfection nor standard, not what you wish, but what they are. To understand what they are, we must help them become what they will be.
Guided by no selected ideal, nor preference by committee. Each individual deserves to become what they will be, and race is surely irrelevant. Some are good at math, even some maybe gifted, though rare they probably are, it sure as hell is not racist to notice that they are special.

Education, after grammar school needs to fill a need for all of us, of many character types and aptitudes. Attempting to push any one individual into the ideal type is not helpful to the individual. If people of one race come to us as more this or that, then so be it.
Difference noted. But never the less, school the individuals the same, to maximize the talent and aptitudes with which they were blessed by the creator.