08-20-2008, 10:49 PM | #101 |
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You joke but there really is such a thing. You should hear my wife's mom talk about it. She's a high level high school math teacher (think ap calc, dominating math team, etc) and really blasts some of the "new math" that's coming down the pipes. Basically, it's cutesy ways of teaching basic functions and algebra that leaves us badly behind the rest of the world. SI
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08-21-2008, 12:58 AM | #102 | |
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New Math. I went to back to school night Monday, and was able to thank my 3rd grade daughter's teacher "Thank you for going over the curriculum. I think it is fantastic that you are actually going to teach the children math." Last year I pissed off my daughter's second grade teacher by telling her that she wasn't teaching math. Rather she was teaching them to count using this screwed up thing called touch math. I might have railed about it here... My blood pressure will raise if I actually try to explain it here. So this year I got to tell the teacher that I'm happy. She is actually having do daily timed addition and multiplication tests. So I went to back to school night, and I didn't tell the teacher that she was lazy, nor did my wife have to usher me away from the teacher and the crowd of parents gathering around to watch the show. |
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08-21-2008, 05:53 AM | #103 |
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"Joe and Steve were planning their wedding in California and lived in Minnesota. They were each bringing fifteen guests. Six of the total guests lived in California. How many people had to travel to California?"
What's the question kids are gonna ask here? "Mom, why are Joe and Steve getting married when they're Asian and White?" |
08-21-2008, 02:00 PM | #104 |
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I think someone hit it on the head a couple pages back, saying that it's more important to expose the majority to the minority than vice versa (not to mention that minorities will soon be the majority in the U.S.).
The number of multicultural mentions in things like textbooks and commercials are going to have to exceed their actual numbers if we are to do so. It often strikes me how nonrepresentative ads and commercials are which always feature a white, a black and an Asian. But it seems the reasonable solution to the issue of including more people. |
08-21-2008, 05:20 PM | #105 | |
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Not sure about your kids, but mine would ask why two men are getting married.
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08-21-2008, 08:24 PM | #107 | |
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*woosh* That was the sound of a joke going over one's head (a sound I know so very well) SI
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08-22-2008, 08:44 AM | #108 |
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Yeah I got the joke, I was just making a rather noticeable attempt at another joke. Sad, I know. Oh well, perhaps next time.....
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Funny you mention this. I just spent almost $400 on textbooks for this fall semester (senior year). This is just another racket going on that nobody wants to admit to or talk about. They are definitely "pricks" in my opinion.
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08-24-2008, 06:03 PM | #111 |
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Damn....Takara and Sukey beat out Tyrone and Dashiqui again....just another case of them yellas holding us down....
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08-24-2008, 06:48 PM | #112 | |
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I kinda thought a couple of the early posters also really unfairly ripped panerd as well, without, IMO, anywhere near the evidence they thought they had. One of them even admitted later on he didn't have access to those sorts of numbers, and but that unfortunately didn't lead him to apologize to panerd at least by the point at which I am responding here. And before everyone leaps on the popular "Chief must be racist" card, my best friend is Asian, I count many Asians and Latinos among my best friends, and I have grown up among them and other racial groups my whole life (being from California). The only group to which I feel I need more exposure is African-American (and despite that, no problems there either).
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08-24-2008, 07:06 PM | #113 | |
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I'm assuming you're talking about me and if so, I'd recommend post #28. I still find his general tone about Asians to be offensive, but if he wants to incorporate a more integrated multiculturalism I'm all for it.
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The numbers issue doesn't really relate to the specific issue of Panerd's comments at all. It was a response to a theoretical posed by SI.
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08-24-2008, 07:08 PM | #114 | |
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Sorry, JPhillips, but I am not going to name names. I just felt some people were over the top, and perhaps, they should consider giving an unqualified apology. But that's up to them.
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08-25-2008, 02:01 AM | #115 |
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Wait a second, the real question is why the fuck are kids going to school in mid august? That's like some communist bullshit. It's harvest season, dammit. Send them out to work on the farm for a couple more weeks.
Civilized kids should only be learning about Sukey and Takara after labor day. |
08-25-2008, 09:22 AM | #116 | |
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I don't think any apology is neccessary, though I appreciate your posts. I just don't understand how me complaining about the cosmetic and supericial changes being made to a textbook became me being a racist. It's not that I even care being labeled as such or feel the need to defend myself if I am, but when I made the original post it was the last thing I ever expected to happen. (On the other hand I also felt like it might be a no reply thread, not a 115+ one!) |
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08-25-2008, 07:21 PM | #117 |
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What if Barbara and Susan were Asian Americans and Sukey and Tatanka were displaced WASPs in Japan? Could so happen.
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08-25-2008, 07:23 PM | #118 |
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Been on the internet long, buddy?
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Not a bad angle. I wouldn't normally think about an international market for a math book written in English, but I can buy that. Of course at the same time there's probably a need for Spanish language math texts in the United States...
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08-25-2008, 09:52 PM | #122 |
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Ok Crim, it is your turn. And I was thinking of putting you on my buddy list the other day. I will rectify that by doing so, what a strange name for a girl.
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08-25-2008, 11:15 PM | #123 |
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You crack me up.
And, yes, by all means, let me have a go at it, I've been patient enough. |
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Just cause we're buddies dosen't mean I have a specific quanity available at all times, well if you consider 0 a quanity than I do.
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So, wait, what you're advocating is "no whites after Labor day"? (oh, yeah, I went there! and I'm almost proud of that bad pun) SI
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Almost every professor I had in college in then law school were extremely sympathetic to this. A lot of times there'd be notes on the syllabus highlighting the differences between editions, and where you could find the info in the gap if you went with the older book. My law school professors would ususally say, "the assignment is pages 1-100, if you have last year's casebook, just lookup case X on Westlaw and you'll be caught up". |
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