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No, I was actually pretty surprised by how ridiculous some of her statements sounded. Still, encouraging traffic to a site like campusreform.com makes me feel q
by jdpigeon 9y ago
No, I was actually pretty surprised by how ridiculous some of her statements sounded. Still, encouraging traffic to a site like campusreform.com makes me feel queasy.
- dogruck 9y agoI agree. My other related articles all cited that one though. Disturbing.
- creaghpatr 9y ago^attacking the source for lack of better arguement
- dogruck 9y agoThis might be the most wacky quote from the interview: > For instance, in Papua New Guinea they have a base 16 system and … it’s the body … the body is the calculator…so, when somebody’s counting it’s the body that’s being enacted. So, what does that mean when we receive a singular version of mathematics both from the point of view of European mathematics, but also from the point of view of what counts as school mathematics.
- AstralStorm 9y agoAnd we have base 24 and base 60 on clocks. Straight from Babylon. So what? Base 10 is not a modern invention either. School mathematics teaches mostly about white people because a lot of actually written down math was for by them. (By them we still use a bunch of theorems and notations invented by Chinese and Arabs. Some Indian too.) The problem is related to other people not using written media as much and/ or taking a back seat during 18th through early 20th century. This is changing again, where Chinese and Indian mathematicians are getting well known again. Why not say Zimbabwean? Answer is trivial, economics and wars.