Georgia School Board Bans 'Theory Of Math'

n2doc

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Tue Jun-28-11 08:44 PM
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Georgia School Board Bans 'Theory Of Math'

OCTOBER 16, 2002 | ISSUE 43•27 ISSUE 38•38

COGDELL, GA—The Cogdell School Board banned the teaching of the controversial "Theory Of Math" in its schools Monday. "We are simply not confident of this mysterious process by which numbers turn, as if by magic, into other numbers," board member Gus Reese said. "Those mathematicians are free to believe 3 times 4 equals 12, but that dun give them the right to force it on our children." Under the new ruling, all math textbooks will carry a disclaimer noting that math is only one of many valid theories of number-manipulation.

Another one from The Onion likely to become true in the not too distant future...
http://www.theonion.com/articles/georgia-school-board-bans-theory-of-math,2998/

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baldguy

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Tue Jun-28-11 08:47 PM
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1. Mal-tee-plee-ka-shun is the debil's werk

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AverageJoe90

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Tue Jun-28-11 08:47 PM
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2. Thank god it's only an Onion article...........

......we don't need any more school boards kowtowing to the far right, like they did here in Texas.

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Ozymanithrax

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Tue Jun-28-11 09:06 PM
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3. Multiplication, why that's what people do when they have babies...

So teaching multiplication is like teaching sex education.

Can't have that.

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Webster Green

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Tue Jun-28-11 09:43 PM
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4. I was totally buying into this one.

I can see this happening in Georgia.

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cordelia

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Tue Jun-28-11 09:46 PM
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5. I can't.

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Stuart G

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Tue Jun-28-11 09:47 PM
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6. Anything can happen but...here is what I have to say..

मुझे चिंता क्या

thank you too

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