In the quest to recognize ballin ass shit here at EVOLUTION, we leave no stone unturned. That's why when I stumbled upon this little piece of heaven, I couldn't help but spread the news. If you haven't heard there is a math teacher out there that everyone can get on board with. The short of it is that a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that fractions should be done away with! The man actually stood on campus and proclaimed "down with fractions!" His argument is that while once useful for by-hand calculations, in the digital age that we live in, fractions no longer have a usefulness. The only question I got is, Where the fuck was this guy at when I was out here struggling through the likes of fractions and other pointless shit we spend time on in math class!?!?
Now before some of you get your panties in a bunch and start hating on this man, he isn't saying that fractions should be done away with all together, but rather that it shouldn't be taught to the lower levels of math, which I take to be those of us who aren't going on to deal with a great deal of math in our everyday lives outside of basic day-to-day addition and subtraction. Of course there are plenty of haters out there that think he's crazy, but it preaches something fundamental that I've been saying for quite sometime, especially when it comes to math, why waste our time with it if we are never going to use it?
It seems like we spend enough of our life learning things that we will never use and if we can spend that time specializing on something we care about and will use more often, doesn't that make a little more sense in the long run? Don't get me wrong, I'm not out here advocating the dumbing down of our society because Lord knows we got enough of that thanks to the likes of BET, Hollywood, and our government which witholds way more than we know but still, if we are going to be masters our resepective domains, we should push aside some less important shit and get our minds right on what we are good at.
Now before some of you get your panties in a bunch and start hating on this man, he isn't saying that fractions should be done away with all together, but rather that it shouldn't be taught to the lower levels of math, which I take to be those of us who aren't going on to deal with a great deal of math in our everyday lives outside of basic day-to-day addition and subtraction. Of course there are plenty of haters out there that think he's crazy, but it preaches something fundamental that I've been saying for quite sometime, especially when it comes to math, why waste our time with it if we are never going to use it?
It seems like we spend enough of our life learning things that we will never use and if we can spend that time specializing on something we care about and will use more often, doesn't that make a little more sense in the long run? Don't get me wrong, I'm not out here advocating the dumbing down of our society because Lord knows we got enough of that thanks to the likes of BET, Hollywood, and our government which witholds way more than we know but still, if we are going to be masters our resepective domains, we should push aside some less important shit and get our minds right on what we are good at.
2 comments:
I hated fractions.
agreed cody, fractions were some bullshit
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