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axeil posted:I found this bit very illuminating: They're already doing that because it's a lot cheaper to make textbooks these days. And the common core solution is just "instead of everyone getting textbooks made for Texas it's everyone gets textbooks made for Common Core!"
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Skeesix posted:One thing I'm curious about with respect to "falling behind": I heard at one point that America is not really falling behind... When it comes to educating white people. That when you look at the numbers for whites in the US you get something on the order of Norway or Finland but we just do such an execrable job educating minorities that the us looks pretty poor on the numbers. Of course I haven't really looked at the numbers there but I think it was on an NPR program where they were examining how elites in the country want to shake up education and how they're doing so. Yes. code:
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tsa posted:Really the most glaring problem is that we are just now implementing statistics curriculum into middle school and high school. It will be interesting to see how students who go through those classes compare to their slightly older peers who did not. There's been an optional dedicated class to it for forever and some applications (eg, basic probability) have been part of the algebra curriculum for a while now.
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Bel Shazar posted:I, for one, would expect to see good value from courses designed to help children create effective visual representations of their ideas. They'd be taught on Visio if anything.
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Jul 26, 2014 18:06
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KillHour posted:There's a reason McDonalds has the "Double Quarter Pounder" and not the "Half Pounder." Then again, places like Fuddruckers have fractional denominations and I doubt their clientele are significantly more intelligent.
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Renaissance Robot posted:Is there an actual reason why American supermarkets continue to defy progress by displaying neither 100g/1kg normalised prices nor price after tax on shelf labels? No one in the US displays price after tax and in my experience for a group of products they do $/[unit weight] where the unit weight is the same (there are some exceptions though; popcorn is occasionally $/ounce or $/package for seemingly random reasons). Price after tax is also different in the US because it's explicitly not a VAT.
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rkajdi posted:We do display for a few things (gasoline, movie theaters), but in general we don't include sales tax into the price of things. I think it's messed up since it helps out regressive southern hellholes (who fund themselves through sales taxes instead of income taxes) since it makes your prices seem similar when you're actually paying 1-2% extra. Of the seven states that don't charge income tax, only two of them were part of the former confederacy (and none of the others existed when the Civil War first started).
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Nov 26, 2014 17:32
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rkajdi posted:It's not just having zero income taxes, it's also having low ones. Either way places the burden of funding the state on the poor. Southern states are heavier users of sales taxes, as shown by this map: I don't see a clear geographic trend at all, there are darker states all over and lighter states all over. It's also funny you bring up West Virginia because they have one of the lowest sales tax rates per your map (Virginia, an "actual" southern state, is in the bottom 10).
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JeffersonClay posted:The anecdote on the last page about innumeracy leading consumers to believe a 1/4 pound burger had more meat than a 1/3 pound is exactly the problem common core standards seek to address. The CCSS focus much more on making practical connections between real life and math, and heuristics to promote those connections, rather than series of algorithms. So kids spend more time comparing visual, concrete representations of fractions than they do simplifying fractions, for example. Or you could just convert everything to decimal. 
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