{"id":5304,"date":"2007-05-27T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2007\/05\/27\/not-so-new-math\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:01:20","slug":"not-so-new-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/not-so-new-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-so-new math"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/archives\/008037.php\">\u2022 If you believe in your heart or in your conscience that 2+2=5, does anyone else have the right to tell you that you&#8217;re wrong? Explain why we should avoid judging other people&#8217;s mathematical operations.<br \/>\n\u2022 Fractions are divisive. Can you think of better ways to express a quotient, without using divisive fractions? Is division something we should strive to do with numbers anyway?<br \/>\n\u2022 Explain why the labeling of numbers as either &#8220;positive&#8221; or &#8220;negative&#8221; is discriminatory, hurtful, and a manifestation of the bigotry of value-ism. How would you feel if you were labeled a &#8220;negative&#8221; number? What can you do to help end this kind of discrimination?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 If you believe in your heart or in your conscience that 2+2=5, does anyone else have the right to tell you that you&#8217;re wrong? Explain why we should avoid judging other people&#8217;s mathematical operations. \u2022 Fractions are divisive. Can you think of better ways to express a quotient, without using divisive fractions? Is division &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/not-so-new-math\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not-so-new math&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1ny","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142406,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions\/142406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}