The trouble with schools is too much math

[BidenPresident]

Only 22 percent of the nation’s workers use any math more advanced than fractions, and they typically occupy technical or skilled positions. That means more than three-fourths of the population spends painful years in school futzing with numbers when they could be learning something more useful.

Logic teaches us how to trace a claim back to its underlying premises and to test each link in a chain of thought for unsupported assumptions or fallacies.

People trained in logic are better able to spot the deceptions and misdirection that politicians so often employ.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/06/end-useless-math-requirements/

 

[ExpressLane]

Only 22 percent of the nation’s workers use any math more advanced than fractions, and they typically occupy technical or skilled positions. That means more than three-fourths of the population spends painful years in school futzing with numbers when they could be learning something more useful.

Logic teaches us how to trace a claim back to its underlying premises and to test each link in a chain of thought for unsupported assumptions or fallacies.

People trained in logic are better able to spot the deceptions and misdirection that politicians so often employ.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/06/end-useless-math-requirements/

Math is logic. It needs an organized and logical mind. I can see why retards would think we teach too much math.

 

[BidenPresident]

Math is logic. It needs an organized and logical mind. I can see why retards would think we teach too much math.

Math is not logic.

 

[Nordberg]

You cannot get too much math. Everything is math.

 

[BidenPresident]

You cannot get too much math. Everything is math.

Trump or Biden for President. Show how math tells us who to vote for.

 

[zymurgy]

Math is not logic.

Boolean algebra.....

 

[BidenPresident]

The point is not to eliminate math from high school, obviously.

Give students the option of taking logic instead of calculus, for example.

 

[ExpressLane]

The point is not to eliminate math from high school, obviously.

Give students the option of taking logic instead of calculus, for example.

Math teaches you to think abstractly.

 

[Bigdog]

The point is not to eliminate math from high school, obviously.

Give students the option of taking logic instead of calculus, for example.

Most States only require Algebra 1 to graduate HS.

 

[BidenPresident]

Math teaches you to think abstractly.

So does history.

 

[ExpressLane]

Math is not logic.

Mathematics is a set of formal applications of logic. Mathematicians use logic as a language to express mathematical proofs. Each theorem, proof, and equation are derived from a set of logical rules. For example, the sum of all interior angles of any triangle is 180 degrees.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/is-math-a-magic-or-logic/

Mathematics is a set of specific formal applications of logic, with each branch of mathematics starting with a different set of initial facts.

Those initial facts (axioms) are not necessarily true in the real world, but are simply assumed to be true within the branch of mathematics being used.

https://philosophy.stackexchange.co... is a set of,branch of mathematics being used.

 

[ExpressLane]

So does history.

How so?

 

[BidenPresident]

The proposal is to teach logic and philosophy, not just symbolic logic.
Most people on this forum, for example, have no idea how to make an argument or respond to someone else's argument.

 

[BidenPresident]

How so?

Where is 1883? Just a concept.

 

[ExpressLane]

The proposal is to teach logic and philosophy, not just symbolic logic.
Most people on this forum, for example, have no idea how to make an argument or respond to someone else's argument.

And you can't do math.

 

[ExpressLane]

Where is 1883? Just a concept.

No where.

 

[BidenPresident]

And you can't do math.

You always make personal attacks. It is boring.

 

[ExpressLane]

You always make personal attacks. It is boring.

You tell people to kill themselves