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2017-05-19 Home Front: Culture Wars
A shrewd blow against trump's HB1 initiative
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-19 09:50|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 So millions of employers will look for an discard any CV/Resume with credentials from Edx
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-19 10:13||   2017-05-19 10:13|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-19 11:34||   2017-05-19 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Formalized reasoning or proof, decontextualization/abstraction, and algorithmic thinking are pretty much the concepts that make 'Western' mathematics a very powerful tool part of which is the language of the universe.

Without these concepts any form of 'non-Western' mathematics is a compilation of intuited truths, half-truths and much superstition.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2017-05-19 14:24||   2017-05-19 14:24|| Front Page Top

#4 'non-Western' mathematics

Like Indian positional notation ("Arabic" numerals)?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-19 14:44||   2017-05-19 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 So STEM jobs are hiring, and STEM jobs pay well, and STEM is one of the big reason's America has stayed on top so by all means let's convince the children that the base of the whole STEM success pyramid is evil?
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-05-19 16:31||   2017-05-19 16:31|| Front Page Top

#6 The real point of this lies in this quote:

"... according to Campus Reform. It presupposes that math could be made more interesting for students if it was infused with socially relevant themes"

So brainwashing will make it better. If they can't get more of the ladies interested in STEM degrees they can at least brainwash the the rest.
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-05-19 16:34||   2017-05-19 16:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Like Indian positional notation ("Arabic" numerals)?

For some reason the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans were able to build incredible stuff without it. The 'West' didn't use (cultural appropriation!) them till sometime after the Reconquista.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-05-19 17:23||   2017-05-19 17:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Didn't you hear? It's now called "STEAM" -- they added "arts" in there, as if an art degree is as rigorous and marketable as an engineering degree!
Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-05-19 17:32||   2017-05-19 17:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's an idea! Let make the value of Pi exactly 3! and the value if e exactly 2.

And the value of c exactly some high number like 50!

That'll make it all easier!
Posted by CrazyFool 2017-05-19 20:40||   2017-05-19 20:40|| Front Page Top

#10 been tried, CF
Posted by Bov Flimbers 2017-05-19 23:28||   2017-05-19 23:28|| Front Page Top

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