Imagine having kids in Seattle

[fitz19d]

And seeing this curriculum rubric being used. https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudies/pubdocs/Math%20SDS%20ES%20Framework.pdf

[MrAK]

I’m at a loss for polite words

[Irving]

Are those electives?

[BPTactical]

The ONLY thing that oppresses people are themselves.

[hollohas]

Why you got to be hating on coffee?

Some folks related to me live in Seattle. They are ultra crazy liberals. The kind that have their 10 year old kid work at campaign call centers and carry campaign signs for liberals. They love this kind of shit being taught.

[MrPrena]

Even if King county converts to red, I just cannot live in places like that.

As soon as I lands on sea-tac, I am ready on bad mood.


Just no.

[ray1970]

Just got back from Seattle a week ago. It?s like a larger, crappier version of downtown Denver. I wasn?t impressed and if I never make it back there I won?t lose any sleep.

[JohnnyDrama]

My brother lives in a suburb of Seattle. I don't have much hope for my nephew. But I digress....

I only made it as far as the mathematics section of the rubric. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the numeric system "we" use was developed by the Arabs. Ever thunk why we read the Roman alphabet we use left to right, but numbers seem to go right to left?

[Gman]

I thought numbers went right and left with the decimal in the middle. [Coffee]

[theGinsue]

Total Social Engineering BS. Perhaps our childrens knowledge and understanding of mathematics - and their ability to score well on college entrance exams - would be greatly improved if school systems would leave the social engineering crap out and just actually teach mathematics in courses that claim to be about teaching mathematics. While this concept may seem novel to some (particularly, it seems, in Seattle), I believe it's just "common sense".

[wctriumph]

Math has really come a long way from when I was in school ...

[BushMasterBoy]

SWBAT stands for students will be able to. Take the "B" out...what ya get?

[MrPrena]

Dumb superintendent= student learn useless shit. Teachers are forced to teach stupid stuff.

[rondog]

What the actual FUCK???

[RblDiver]

Ever thunk why we read the Roman alphabet we use left to right, but numbers seem to go right to left?

Eh, kinda. I mean, it expands to the left as things get more significant, but we still read it left to right. You'd read the number 1234 as one-thousand two-hundred thirty-four, not four-thirty-two hundred and one thousand, nor four thousand three hundred twenty one :P

[BladesNBarrels]

Eh, kinda. I mean, it expands to the left as things get more significant, but we still read it left to right. You'd read the number 1234 as one-thousand two-hundred thirty-four, not four-thirty-two hundred and one thousand, nor four thousand three hundred twenty one :P

https://i.imgur.com/QiRf9FA.jpg

The Roman abacus, shown here in reconstruction, dates to the 1st century AD. It has eight long grooves containing up to five beads in each and eight shorter grooves having either one or no beads in each. The groove marked I indicates units, X tens, and so on up to millions. The beads in the shorter grooves denote fives or five units, five tens etc., essentially in a bi-quinary coded decimal system, related to the Roman numerals. The short grooves on the right may have been used for marking Roman "ounces" (i.e. fractions).

There we go! Simple as Pi (oops, that's Greek to me)

[Coffee]