Math for Dummies
Power Line,
by
John Hinderaker
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
8/19/2023 9:01:00 AM
It is an inconvenient truth that various ethnic groups do not, on average, perform equally well on objective measures if intellectual accomplishment. Mathematics is particularly problematic, in that results are hard to fudge–basically, answers are either right or wrong.
Liberals have responded to this conundrum by dumbing down one discipline after another. Their theory is that if they lower standards far enough, they will arrive at a point where racial and ethnic differences disappear. I doubt that this strategy can ever actually work, but the result in mathematics is especially embarrassing, as the inevitable decline in performance is hard to hide.
But that didn’t deter left-wingers in California, who enacted
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Manxsom Foe 8/19/2023 9:15:36 AM (No. 1537790)
Some trees in the forest grow taller than others. That is a problem for those who value equity above all else. Since the shorter trees cannot grow taller by themselves, the only solution is a chainsaw. Big Brother will own and operate all chainsaws.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mean Gene 8/19/2023 9:38:34 AM (No. 1537810)
Not "Math for dummies."
More like math for slaves.
People who can do math will be enslaved by those newly powerful minorities who couldn't be bothered.
Reminds me of an old history lesson:
A couple hundred years ago British historian tried to find a Muslim who could explain how they built all those domes that required intricate math.
No Muslim could do it but one explained to him about how they enslaved smart Byzantinian people who they forced into making all their domes.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MissMann 8/19/2023 9:41:17 AM (No. 1537815)
How about the inequity that parents who can afford it are going to get their kids out of these learning deserts?
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sunshinehorses 8/19/2023 10:08:52 AM (No. 1537842)
Math has been an issue for decades now. They started in grade school with not making kids memorize their addition and times tables. Then they said they could use calculators to do simple math problems. Then in middle school they don't have to learn algebra and geometry rules / theorems - they can use their computers to do the problems. Anyone else see an issue here ?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/19/2023 10:12:27 AM (No. 1537849)
When the powers that be keep lowering standards doesn’t that mean that they are resigned to minorities being less intelligent than whites? Instead of keeping the standards high and making achievement a goal, they would rather pull the rug out from under minorities and in reality are telling them they are not as smart as. They don’t seem to want to encourage excellence but instead demand mediocrity.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 8/19/2023 10:20:05 AM (No. 1537857)
The tyranny of the stupid and lazy. And intelligent, hard working students will just leave the public schools in droves, and they will become even LESS relevant to anything than they already are.
Leftists and racists destroy everything they touch. NOTHING is equal in outcome, the only possible things is equal OPPORTUNITY, which used to be the name of the whole thing.
But, given exactly equal opportunities the lazy and the stupid still are lazy and stupid, and do not accomplish as much as the hard working and intelligent.
Nothing will EVER change that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/19/2023 10:23:15 AM (No. 1537861)
There are multiple reasons why ethnic groups perform differently in math. Historical, social, cultural and genetic. Until we have the sense and courage to accept and admit the last one, all so called solutions are doomed to fail.
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jalo1951 8/19/2023 10:41:09 AM (No. 1537884)
Slave owners kept their people "uneducated" because it was easier to control an ignorant person than someone who could think for himself. Nothing has changed. It is time for those black people who are tired of the CA plantation to speak up. Either their children can learn or they cannot. No more excuses. Me thinks this is more a cultural issue than a brain power issue. 2 + 2 = 4. That is not a white answer or a black answer. It is the answer. We have told blacks (and other blacks have chimed in) there is no need to speak correct English, or write correctly using proper verb tense, math is also not necessary, and we all know how they are rewriting history and reading is an unnecessary skill. There are no prizes for being the most ignorant person in the room so stop striving for that goal. The dumber you are the more they want to "help" you. We are not all the same. We have different strengths and weaknesses and general differences. But when you agree to be ignorant that is different. They are telling us that men are and can become women, women are really not necessary, mothers are "egg producers", and a Supreme Court cannot give us a definition of what a woman is (HINT: and adult human female). Why in the world would you allow them to tell you that the more ignorant you and your children are the better it is for you.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/19/2023 10:46:36 AM (No. 1537887)
The newly created 'Science' of Relativism meets the age old Science of Absolutes.
When Sociology Majors gain the reigns of power, bad things happen. When these people dumb down every field of study requiring more rigor and discipline than theirs, which is almost everything, then they shouldn't be surprised when the world around them begins to look like the movie, "Idiocracy."
Next thing you know, they'll be demanding boys dress up like girls and compete in beauty pageants. Oh, wait, what's this? /s
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crankyyankee 8/19/2023 11:11:56 AM (No. 1537904)
I taught Math for 20 years. # 4 is spot on! And,
Let’s not forget the effects of cell phones on young minds, helping to produce heads full of mush, may Rush RIP!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/19/2023 12:40:10 PM (No. 1537997)
#5, and mediocrity leads to dependency, which is just what the left wants.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Brooks 8/19/2023 2:14:49 PM (No. 1538041)
Now Scientists and Engineers will come from China and India.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Stencil 8/19/2023 4:46:09 PM (No. 1538116)
Shouldn't 'if' be 'of' in the first sentence? Irony rears it's head ...
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DVC 8/19/2023 6:29:13 PM (No. 1538211)
I taught math for adults at work for two years. Started with 35 students, but once they realized that it I was going to call on them and they would look foolish if they weren't paying any attention, and they would have to actually learn something...many dropped out.
I finished up with about 8 students who were just extremely happy to have learned some algebra, and we worked extensively on word problems. I asked, "Has anyone ever asked you "If X=3+Y, and Y= blah, blah, blah" have they? They agreed, but I said, but sometimes you can have a problem that you can't figure out except with math, and that problem will come as WORDS.
At the end of the algebra text, I asked if there was anything else that they wanted to learn in math. Two asked about trigonometry, saying that they had heard "it's real hard". I explained what it was, and that there was a "practical trig" that I could pretty easily teach. They asked for it, I got management permission and we did practical trig. At the end, a janitor for our company said he was now able to lay out the hexagonal table that he had wanted to make, being a home woodworking hobbyist.
I like math. I'm sad for those who fear and hate it.
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franq 8/20/2023 7:12:47 AM (No. 1538441)
Good point about the nature of math. It is either right or wrong. No opinion, emotion, gender, or ethnicity about it. Therefore we must blame failure to learn math as racist, climate-based, or whatever other excuses are convenient. Every young member of our department is either Hispanic or Indian. All are on visas. What does that say?
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