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But within business or within medicine are smaller sub-fields that aren't ideal: drug overdose, means of murder, money laundering . . . it's long standing common sense that socially negative issues aren't to be used in such a way.
It doesn't say who wrote these math problems. I'd be willing to bet it wasn't the teachers.
I'd have written something more contemporary like this:
The red gang has 15 members, and the blue gang has 17. A member of the red gang kills a member of the blue gang every fifteen days, but the blue gang only blows away a member of the red gang every 20 days. If each gang is able to recruit three members a month, which gang will have the most members at the end of the year?
Now, that one takes some thought.
If 12 teachers at your school handed out these questions to their students, and 5 out of every 6 teachers lacked tenure, and all the non-tenure teachers were fired for this idiocy, how many teachers would that leave?
The red gang will end up with more members at the end of a full year. :mrgreen:
Correct. See how easy it is when we relate math to the world that kids know?
These two in connection makes it obvious. Why even include this in mathematics? To me, academics should be completely objective. If you must use objects for mathematical word problems, use something as innocent as "fruit," or whatever.
Keep politics out of the classroom.
You know, you are right. If 3 priests at a Catholic school ........ never mind, I'm not gonna go there. :mrgreen:
'If Fred Got Two Beatings Per Day
Fun little article. I just love the quote, [/FONT][/COLOR]"This outrages me because it just lets me know that there's still racists," from the article, like the kind of person that does stupid **** like this is some sheet-wearing KKK member wanting to terrorize little black children-- instead of another well-meaning white liberal who just wants to uphold his civic responsibility to never let anyone forget that we're all victims. We should teach math in math classes, and leave the history lessons for the history classes.
History and math can certainly be tied together. After all, mathematics as a field of study had over 5,000 years of recorded history. However the way they went about this was ridiculous. I guess I can't really be angry though. This is part of the same education system that debates including creationism in our science classes.
I think the teachers used very poor judgement and should be written up. Ridiculous.
I think this kind of crap spewed on 8-yr-olds requires something a bit harsher than write-up. If my kid had been exposed to this, I'd be calling for that teacher's head on a platter.
Seriously? If my kid complained about this, I'd just roll my eyes and tell him to finish his math homework. This is embarrassing, but it isn't anything we need to do anything about.
Seriously, you don't think there is something kind of sick about this... technique?
Seriously? If my kid complained about this, I'd just roll my eyes and tell him to finish his math homework. This is embarrassing, but it isn't anything we need to do anything about.
I think this kind of crap spewed on 8-yr-olds requires something a bit harsher than write-up. If my kid had been exposed to this, I'd be calling for that teacher's head on a platter.
Capitalism is a bigger part of our history. Why not teach capitalism and math together?I read the article and could not really find anything offensive. I thought the idea of working some social studies into the math curriculum was a good idea. Slavery was a part of our history, so what better way to bring economic realities of slavery to a class. It doesn't make any difference if the slaves are red, white and blue.
First of all I have to say, I love this thread. Some great responses here.
My advice to the teachers is to accept their reprimand, and use something with the number of small pox blankets handed out to Indian babies so kids can work on probabilities. There aren't enough Indians left to offend. If that fails, use the Irish.
Capitalism is a bigger part of our history. Why not teach capitalism and math together?
Save your hate and slander of America for the adults and stop trying to teach my children to hate America.
Maybe they will try to add some sort of urban culture that glorifies scumbags to appeal to young kids living in ghettos.For example. Bob has 5 hoes working for him. Each of these hoes works for 12 hours a day.Yesterday in order to make sure his hoes are making his money and to keep them in line Bob had to bitch slap the first hoe every 2 hours, the 2nd hoe ever 3 hours, the 3rd hoe ever six hours and the last two hoes every 4 hours.How times yesterday did Bob have to bitch slap his hoes in order to keep his hoes in line and to make sure they were making his money?
Turning a math class into a “shame on America” session is the correct answer.Are you calling teaching about mathematics teaching your "children to hate America"? Or are you calling teaching about slavery teaching your "children how to hate America?"
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