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Date Posted: 10:37:13 02/20/08 Wed
Author: EJetson
Subject: Re: We be dumb, and proud of it.
In reply to: Lynx 's message, "Re: We be dumb, and proud of it." on 10:23:02 02/20/08 Wed

>>I still to this day have no idea what is meant by "new
>>math".
>
>It was an ass-backwards philosophy of teaching all the
>basic stuff. It completely confused me, as well as
>everybody else, even the teachers who were supposed to
>teach it. I would have to go home and have my
>highschool-dropout mom teach me the old math way, and
>thank God for that. After several years, the New Math
>was jettisoned. That was back when they would get rid
>of new methods that turned out not to work. Now, they
>just throw more money at them.

Can you give me an example of something that was "new math"?

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Re: We be dumb, and proud of it. -- Lynx, 10:42:24 02/20/08 Wed
This example made me die laughing. -- Lynx, 11:03:57 02/20/08 Wed
- Re: This example made me die laughing. -- EJetson, 11:22:59 02/20/08 Wed
  - Re: This example made me die laughing. -- Deep Diction, 19:17:07 02/20/08 Wed
    - Re: This example made me die laughing. -- Lynxia, 20:18:05 02/20/08 Wed
      - Re: This example made me die laughing. -- Deep Diction, 05:45:01 02/21/08 Thu

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