In my practical pedagogy, I try to emphasize heuristics more than algorithms or “facts.” My goals vary by student, but there are good higher order thinking patterns that can be taught with any math concept.

I agree with you that math education is messed up. The way to fix sequencing is to align it to the science sequence, ideally teach it simultaneously. Partial credit for common error categories, based on work shown. I’ve become the evil math teacher that docks points for not including units in geometry (I promise I say it like forty times while they are testing!) because I want them to connect what the math is saying to eat it would look like.

A line (to me) is defined as two or more points that connect.

And to your second “point”, how is learning to do the math, rather than just memorizing a list of answers, “directly involved in what we do as an adult”?

The heuristics are what is valuable - the ability to look at a problem, break it into smaller chunks, and the select the correct algorithm to process that smaller chunk.

Eg, cleaning my apartment: I divide the apartment into sections (bathroom, living room, kitchen, etc), then apply the correct cleaning algorithm to each room.

It’s the higher order thinking skills that really matter, and those are trained and exercised in math classes.

How the hell does x=1 make a line, when it’s a literal one dimensional data point!

I think that indicates that you weren’t properly taught whenever you were learning lines. Did you continue to be confused about vertical lines when you were learning about asymptotes and rational functions?

memorize this list that has nothing to do with 98% of the math you’ll be expected to do as an adult…

Should the only things we learn at school be directly involved in what we do as an adult? Do you “use” what you know about Tom Buchanan or Huckleberry Finn in your day to day life, or were there bigger picture skills that you were reading books to develop?

We need pirate radio

You don’t even need to be licensed for Citizen’s Band. Get started today!

“it gets leaked” - eg, someone posts it as revenge porn, which is the case for a lot of sex tapes being “leaked”?

Something about this meme just feels like it’s trivializing sex crimes.

Drugs are pretty nice. Staying up late getting stoned and drinking helps reset my brain. I can even trick myself into cleaning when stoned.

Was doing the therapy thing, but it was so expensive. Also not any good really. CBT is the opposite of ineffective for rumination, at least for me, and for some reason a thorough, researched explanation on my opposition to CBT has never convinced any practitioner to not eventually suggest it/pressure me into it.

I am hoping to save enough to move to another state by August. Part of the maintaining the multiple jobs. Moving is just so expensive. Getting my certifications transferred was a couple hundred dollars alone. Hundred on another test too. I just need to find a job over there and figure out how to move over there. It’s just terrifying leaving my guaranteed side work, having to rebuild a loyal client base, just to make sure I always have a way to get more money in a pinch.

I was talking IRL to an evangelical earlier who was pretty firmly anti Calvinism - told me that it was heretical because it went against penal substitutionary atonement and that I should read NT Wright.

Religion exists, is followed by many people, and impacts our lives. If you want an understanding of history to you have to have basic background on religious beliefs.

“Hurr durr skydaddy” is a deliberate refusal to think. It is lazy, it is stupid, it is embarrassing, and it does nothing to help you better understand why things are happening in the world.

The inability to distinguish proselytizing from any other discussion of religion does not imply good things about your logical reasoning skills.

What religion do I follow that I am bothering people about?

This proves the exact point that was made earlier - that for some reason, Lemmings are unable to access any critical thinking skills when it comes to religion. You turn your brain off, and just reflexively post r/atheism slogans.

Like, you get there’s a difference between people proselytizing and people talking about religion? Or am I to believe that the professor for the graduate class in religious historiography I took assigned me books about Muslims because he wanted me to convert to Islam?

This just makes you look stupid.

It’s possible to be an atheist without acting like a 12 year old.

The president nixed the SAVE act, and my state made it illegal for trannies to be teachers.

I cannot budget around paying for a degree for a job that they decided I wouldn’t be allowed to have after I graduated.

I darn my socks and clothes instead of throwing them away. I don’t eat out unless it’s something like pizza and it can be ate over several days. I don’t go out - don’t go to events.

It’s great that you have never had to struggle, but you are making a shit ton of assumptions with zero knowledge.

My apartment has two rooms. One is a storage room, the other is the living room/bedroom. TV (a computer monitor hooked up to a PlayStation 4 for YouTube) is right in front of the pile of blankets and pillows where I sleep, and is on 24/7.

What really pisses me off is that I played Bibi in a real world tactics game at a convention five or so years ago. I did exactly what he has done, like I was spot on in predicted what he did. Escalate genocide in Gaza, cultivate connections with the extreme alt right in the US…

But they tried him/me for all of the financial crimes almost immediately and booted me from office and banned him/me from running or holding office again.

Like clearly something about his strategies are working?

Which revisionists?

Lost causers and other racists who want to pretend that the US’s mass enslavement, torture, rape and murder of Africans wasn’t unique.

Why is “muslim slavery” different to “slavery”?

There is not one thing that you can generically refer to as “Muslim slavery.” You can be specific - you can talk about Ottoman slavery, or slavery under the Abassids or something, but saying “Muslim slavery” is a dead give away that you’ve done absolutely zero thinking or research. It’s just a generic “other people had slaves too!” non sequitor.

Why are you trying to make arguments about a topic you clearly have no understanding of? Would you try to teach a calculus class if you had never taken an integral?

Good job revealing that you know absolutely nothing about US history.

My understanding segregation in the US was actually about white people keeping their kids away from integrated schools (which is a nuance, it wasn’t black school vs white school - and a lot of it was in the south). Slavery is NOT a colour based system.

Absolutely, categorically, objectively wrong.

I just saw an ad on Facebook recruiting volunteers to go through old housing contracts to find where they still explicitly prohibit Black folks from living in certain neighborhoods. It was based on Black versus White. In the schools which continue to be de facto segregated based on race to this fucking day, it is based on race.

Get your foot out of your mouth and pick up a basic history textbook.

You get that there is a pattern of shitty historical revisionists that bring up “Muslim slavery” to minimize US slavery? Which you just did?

Is “Islam” a universal world view? If you want to talk about Islam and slavery, at bare fucking minimum you need to talk about a specific area, time period and its strain of Islam. I have no idea what your vague illusion to “Europe” was even supposed to mean in the context of slavery.

I think you just need to recognize that you know next to nothing about this topic, and when one knows nothing, they need to shut the fuck up.

Slavery in the US WAS BASED ON THE COLOR OF PEOPLE’S SKIN. As was SEGREGATION.

Are you not capable of reading or do you just lack any knowledge of the basic history you are trying to argue about?

All slavery is bad

You are aware of the fact that there are different forms of slavery?

The chattel slavery of the antebellum US is uniquely bad in scale and brutality of oppression. This is clear to anyone who has spent more than five minutes studying the topic.

Living in the US means regularly encountering light skinned black people. The reason that most light skinned black people in the US have light skin is because of rape. Systemic rape. After the import ban of the early 1800’s, the U.S. bred its own slaves.

This arbitrary timeline doesn’t help

The point, which should be abundantly obvious, is how recent race based chattel slavery being ended is, and how it was present throughout the history of the US.

The fact is that the US was built on race based chattel slavery. The US is fundamentally structured on racial hierarchy, with Black individuals existing under White ones. This has been legally codified for the bulk of the US’s lifespan, and is a foundational part of the way the US is structured.

This could be similarly said about Brazil, which was also organized around race based chattel slavery, with Europeans importing slaves from Africa there as well.

“Europe” or “Islam” are irrelevant and too broad to be useful terms for historical analysis or at all relevant here.

“Obscenity” is kinda meaningless when you have a president that raped children.