This Math Book Was Rejected?

@athousandyoung said

Beneath an ordinary math problem, students are asked, “How can you understand your feelings?”

That’s dumb and should not be in a math book.

"I agree, Bernard, but sometimes the math in my head makes me sad and I don't know why and it's not something I would want to paint."

-- Dolores Abernathy

@earl-of-trumps said
Couldn't agree more, ATY.

Let us suppose RHP people bought a book of Chess problems that are of the "Mate in x" variety.
And when you "solve" a theme problem, you are then asked “How can you understand your feelings?”
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The woke people don't want our students to focus, they want them to be kept off balance, overburdened, and held back from excelling.

The book y'all are calling dumb was
sidelined in MISSOURI, and has nothing
to do with my FLORIDA example.

@jimm619 said
Anyone able to tell me what is wrong with this book?
https://news.yahoo.com/look-inside-textbooks-florida-rejected-115847845.html

Perhaps you missed this one: 😉

Doug the CEO has 3,000 wage slaves working under him. Ten of them throw themselves off the top of his corporate tower well before the usual end-of-Q4 cull (no, they weren't women, Black, or Asian). How many corporate wage-slaves are still working for Doug?

@earl-of-trumps said
@jimm619
Dumb enough to ban?



Yes

The 'DUMB' answer y'all refer to is from a MISSOURI ruling, nothing to do with my FLORIDA post.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-missouri-students-were-234742875.html

@kevin-eleven said
Perhaps you missed this one: 😉

Doug the CEO has 3,000 wage slaves working under him. Ten of them throw themselves off the top of his corporate tower well before the usual end-of-Q4 cull (no, they weren't women, Black, or Asian). How many corporate wage-slaves are still working for Doug?

You're right .....missed it.

@earl-of-trumps said
Couldn't agree more, ATY.

Let us suppose RHP people bought a book of Chess problems that are of the "Mate in x" variety.
And when you "solve" a theme problem, you are then asked “How can you understand your feelings?”
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The woke people don't want our students to focus, they want them to be kept off balance, overburdened, and held back from excelling.

I can't read all the text in the image because it's too small. I can see some of it.

But, as a student of many years ago I excelled in math and loved it. As a result, I've been able to contribute in a meaningful way to society. If math consisted of much crap like this, I'd have been turned off from the whole subject and would have not developed a very important talent and skill.

The enemies of the US would love nothing more than to alienate youth with the most aptitude from the subject and make it more endearing for those more suited to art and social work. Talking about how 1+1 makes you feel does not put men on the moon, does not make life saving medication, and does not make better electronics. Most of all, it does not make people who are good at math want to learn more.

If I were in charge of selecting math books for a curriculum, this book would be rejected whether it had CRT or not.

@kevin-eleven said
@Earl-of-Trumps

P.S. -- Some lockstepper might come along any moment now to call me a Lincoln-Log Republican and scold me for betraying Stonewall, The New York Native, The Advocate, Absolut Vodka, RuPaul, and what have you. 😉

One might be excused for thinking there might be some psychologically healthy people among chess players, but apparently not.

@athousandyoung said

Beneath an ordinary math problem, students are asked, “How can you understand your feelings?”

But if a student were to ask for a clarification re: "you", "understand", and "feelings" they might be suspended from attending class.

@jimm619 said
Anyone able to tell me what is wrong with this book?
https://news.yahoo.com/look-inside-textbooks-florida-rejected-115847845.html

It looks like completely plausible skills to learn.
However, I don’t see why it’s in a maths book.
But, ai don’t know the contents of the rest of the book and how well it teaches maths.
Banning a book because of one diagram is madness.

@suzianne said
One might be excused for thinking there might be some psychologically healthy people among chess players, but apparently not.

Well, yes, and to be fair I have gone back to playing SWTOR. As far as I know, there haven't been any Clarke or Stapledon MMOs so far.

Tonight, however, I have been thinking it would be cool if there were one or more remakes of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles.

@earl-of-trumps said
Couldn't agree more, ATY.

Let us suppose RHP people bought a book of Chess problems that are of the "Mate in x" variety.
And when you "solve" a theme problem, you are then asked “How can you understand your feelings?”
---------------------------------------

The woke people don't want our students to focus, they want them to be kept off balance, overburdened, and held back from excelling.

Yeah Earl, probably woulda' held you back
from becoming another Einstein or Hawkings.
..........Cryin' shame.

@athousandyoung said

Beneath an ordinary math problem, students are asked, “How can you understand your feelings?”

That’s dumb and should not be in a math book.

LOL it is super dumb and shouldn't be in a maths book.

But DeSantis went around on national news and in front of press corps to argue ad nausem that the reason for rejecting these math books was because he's standing up to CRT and wokeness.

It turns out this has nothing to do with that. The math book is dumb but it's for kids. What does that say about the adults caught red handed with the dumb political posturing.