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by w2ktechman
many times I know I calculated right, but the books told me I was wrong....
And then there are the times that I couldnt even understand what the heck they were saying in the first place.
Geez. If there were that many errors in elementary books, how bout the physics book I have... :0 -- LOG this!
2 + 2 = 5
should do it.
A good example for truth bing stranger than fiction isn't it?
by profpaul3d
This will cure the teachers ills about No Child Left Behind. Now there are no wrong answers. 4 is a prime number, Pi is rational and "Kelly Pickler" logic is the norm!!
Boy, will my fellow teachers be relieved at how the pressure is off!
has gone to rat sh!t in the UK.
Too many people practicing their social theories on kids, not trying to control how they learn, but what.
by boxfiddler
2+2=3 dammit!
And I can prove it. :D
by w2ktechman
by dadspad
I remember helping my kids in math and finding an occasional error in the answers in back. But never that high.
I lost faith in schools when they did not require math in all grades. It always seemed that math was not emphasised as it should. Of course, many kids today have a hard time with english, which is their primary language.
...and has been for a long time.
Both I and my wife got in trouble for correcting our teachers while we were growing up.
Now it's all about feeeeeeeeeeeelings.
Our kids in the US feel great about themselves, and after 20 years of this garbage, the colleges are now complaining that the students are all so self-centered and not eager to learn.
gee, I wonder how THAT happened!
was competition is bad for them.
After all not everyone can win and losing will hurt their self esteem.
To paraphrase Mr Churchill.
Never have so few, harmed so many with some thing this f'king stupid.
Getting any sleep? :D
by absolutely
The article mentions the time-frame that all publishers are given to correct their errors. Although one publisher is single-handedly responsible for a 5-fold increase in errors compared to last year, that one is not being dropped altogether.
[i]The total number of errors was nearly five times the total for last year, thanks to one publisher whose books contained more than 86,000 errors ? 79 percent of the total.[/i]
Just goes to show, with a government contract you can f*ck up a lot more before getting fired than you can in the real world. That is why our national debt is $30,000 per person.
by ontheropes
"The total number of errors was nearly five times the total for last year..."
Depends upon where they learned their math.
Maybe that's why our national debt is so high. There might be a dearth of politicians in D.C. without simple math skills.
by boxfiddler
"There might be a dearth of politicians in D.C. without simple math skills."
Doesn't the above remark belong in a yuk? :D
by ontheropes
Former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18787.htm#
Not very good news.
Quite Right.
1+1=3
by boxfiddler
https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=244942&messageID=2367082
:D
by ontheropes
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