Tag: math

association-of-free-people:

thinksquad:

https://t.co/pK8LaCEFXR

Peterson has been talking about this trend and diagnosing it in academia for a long while.  I’ve listened to many of his discussions and lectures and while he often takes postmodernist doctrine to its logical and absurd ends I doubt he thought he’d ever see them go after something like mathematics.  

You’ll also notice this professor is not a mathematics professor but a math education professor. She’s someone who teaches educators how math should be taught. These are the fields the postmodernist / neo-marxists gravitate to. From these positions they wield influence, gatekeeping power and pursue these posts like any authoritarian would.. They are put in these positions for a purpose.

thecommunityoftrustworthysinks:

vvankinq:

this is fucked up. this fucked me up. the teachers fucked up by not showing us this fuck up. fuck.

ok i tried this with some random numbers, and i picked 17 x 32, which equals 544, but the answer i got from this method was 32314 so unless i Really Fucked Up,

…that seems unnecessarily complicated to me. The box method, or even just the method where you multiply each number individually, would have been easier.

What I mean is 25×11 being solved like
1×5=5
1×20=20
5×10=50
20×10=200
Which is 275. That was… not hard at all.

And since I’m on mobile I can’t really describe the box method well but basically you have a box like this
||||10 1 |||
20|
5 |
And you multiply the same way but it’s more organized and makes it easier to keep track of the numbers

I don’t really understand why you’d use that method when much easier and simpler methods exist

Source: yodiscrepo