And that is when you have the accuracy vs precision discussion.
From: Bill Prince
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4 times 7 is 30 if you want your answer rounded to the nearest multiple of 10.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 2/12/2021 10:21 AM, Mathew Howard wrote:
If that's what they're talking about, they're doing a very poor job of
explaining themselves. You can certainly ask a question that has multiple
correct answers, but there are still right and wrong answers... there might be
50 right answers instead of 1, but the infinite number of wrong answers are all
still wrong. 10 times 3, 15 times 2 and 5 times 6 can all be correct answers to
that question, but 4 times 7 is always going to be wrong.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:13 PM Carl Peterson <[email protected]>
wrote:
Both those references are pretty alarmist. Here is what they cite.
While I may be too old and biased for their wokeness, they raise some very
valid points. IMHO the focus of learning math should be on understanding math
and we are doing a whole lot better at that now then when I was in school.
As to the original point about "correct answers", it seems that this a
misconstrued interpretation of the focus on divergent thinking. Give me three
equations that equal 30 does have multiple correct answers and is a much better
question then what is 10 times 3.
https://equitablemath.org/
https://sites.google.com/view/pathwaytoequity2021/micro-course?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:48 AM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]>
wrote:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-math-course-racism-white-supremacy-teachers
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy
From: Carl Peterson
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 10:18 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT possibly political
Not sure of your source but I think you misunderstand.
https://www.mathnasium.com/littleton-news-when-one-correct-math-answer-is-not-enough
"Reframing the above problem to encourage divergent thinking might look
something like this:
“Find the sum of 32 + 5 and then create more equations that have the same
sum.”
Theoretically, someone could keep thinking about this problem forever and
generate infinite correct answers."
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:32 AM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]>
wrote:
Just read of a push to teach a “new math” the encourages multiple
“correct answers” to math problems and eliminates “show your work”. Supposedly
cleanses math teaching from institutional racism.
OK, irrespective of your genetics, heritage, cultural backgropund and
gender choices, if I tell an employee to go read the sequentials off of a reel
of cable and tell me how much is left, they better get one frigging answer, the
one and only correct answer.
So I am an old fat entitled unwoke white guy. By some accounts
automatically racist. I don’t feel that way, but again I am unwoke (whatever
in the hell that means) so I wouldn’t know.
I simply don’t get how getting the one and only right answer in math
class is institutional racism. Can you imagine someone that came up through
schools that allow this trying to get into an engineering program? Now who is
suppressing whom...
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