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Guesstimate how many millions of otherwise intelligent people worldwide have their dreams dashed every year, because the course they plan to study in college requires them to have a passing grade in math or statistics or calculus—in other words, what percentage of the world’s population has been unfairly or unjustifiably been masked by math?
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When math learning goes beyond learning facts, figures, and applications; instead, math is humanized so that it is allowed to convey beauty, values, truth, justice, play, and love—when mathematical thinking is viewed as a way of life.
Teachers should present math as a verb, not as a noun—when students should be encouraged to be active players, not mere spectators.
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Get the Math-ew mug.mathematicians don't study math; they study other things, like cohomology groups, k-theory, and algebraic d-modules.
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Get the math mug.A high school level class in which the pupils consist of those on sports teams, the highly apathetic, those who "have one last chance to pass a class before we send your ass to jail," and senior year white kids wishing to recieve grades for napping.
With a loose curriculum focusing on how to write checks and ask for an IRS form, it is a veritable university for the latest insults and obtuse slang.
With a loose curriculum focusing on how to write checks and ask for an IRS form, it is a veritable university for the latest insults and obtuse slang.
I was going to eat the weed cookie in math models, but Mookie saw it and took it from me at gun point while the teacher laughed at me and called me a bitch.
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Two political math classics in the recreational math literature, which condones bigotry and racism are:
1. A Turkish bath has 30 visitors in a day. The fee for Jews is 3 dirhams, for Christians 2 dirhams, and for Muslims 1/2 dirham. Thirty dirhams were earned by the bath. How many Christians, Jews, and Muslims attended?
2. A sinking ship must cast off passengers to survive. There are 15 Christians and 15 Turks aboard. The captain, himself a Christian, arranges the passengers in a circle where every ninth person will be thrown overboard. How should he make the arrangement so that the Christians survive?
1. A Turkish bath has 30 visitors in a day. The fee for Jews is 3 dirhams, for Christians 2 dirhams, and for Muslims 1/2 dirham. Thirty dirhams were earned by the bath. How many Christians, Jews, and Muslims attended?
2. A sinking ship must cast off passengers to survive. There are 15 Christians and 15 Turks aboard. The captain, himself a Christian, arranges the passengers in a circle where every ninth person will be thrown overboard. How should he make the arrangement so that the Christians survive?
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