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Are you sure it isn't this: https://www.edutopia.org/article/why-schools-should-stop-adding-and-adopt-a-subtraction-mindset/[^] I can't seem to find anything on the internet for "stopping teaching subtraction"
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So what alternative are they teaching? Adding negative numbers to something else? Or is that banned also because anything "negative" has bad connotations that'll make a snowflake melt...?
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My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:
Reminds me of the first web indexing machine, AltaVista[^]: A lot of Swedish scientific documents/papers were censored. The problem was that the number 'six' is, in Swedish, written with an 'e' rather than 'i'. AltaVista consistently rejected all documents referring to the number '6' written in words in Swedish, and this was rather common in lots of scientific texts. And this story is not a joke, it actually happened, some time around 1995-96. Here in Scandinavia it made headlines in professional media, and the censorship was at least partially lifted. Maybe the story didn't make it to media across the pond at the time it happened.
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Did they remove the subtraction function from calculators? :)
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A travesty, all students should be exposed to the alternatives. I used SVN for years, it ain't so bad!
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Alternative Math | Short Film - YouTube[^] Worth seeing
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My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:
Maybe they subtracted subtraction from elementary schools and added it to the high school syllabus.
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My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:
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Next, the number 666 will be removed from math, sort of like why buildings didn't/don't have a 13th floor.
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Early tall-building designers, fearing a fire on the 13th floor, or fearing tenants' superstitions about the rumor, decided to omit having a 13th floor listed on their elevator numbering. This practice became commonplace, and eventually found its way into American mainstream culture and building design.
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity FrameworkIt's already worse than that - American buildings must be based on VB. The floor numbers are 1-based, with no sign of 0 (the ground floor) anywhere. :laugh:
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My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:
You don't need subtraction. You just need to learn addition of negative numbers... :-\
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It's already worse than that - American buildings must be based on VB. The floor numbers are 1-based, with no sign of 0 (the ground floor) anywhere. :laugh:
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Are you saying VB is 1-based? :confused: Not as far as I know...
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Are you saying VB is 1-based? :confused: Not as far as I know...
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VB's legacy string functions certainly are:
Strings.Mid Method (Microsoft.VisualBasic) | Microsoft Learn[^]:
' Creates text string.
Dim testString As String = "Mid Function Demo"
' Returns "Mid".
Dim firstWord As String = Mid(testString, 1, 3)
' Returns "Demo".
Dim lastWord As String = Mid(testString, 14, 4)
' Returns "Function Demo".
Dim midWords As String = Mid(testString, 5)
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VB's legacy string functions certainly are:
Strings.Mid Method (Microsoft.VisualBasic) | Microsoft Learn[^]:
' Creates text string.
Dim testString As String = "Mid Function Demo"
' Returns "Mid".
Dim firstWord As String = Mid(testString, 1, 3)
' Returns "Demo".
Dim lastWord As String = Mid(testString, 14, 4)
' Returns "Function Demo".
Dim midWords As String = Mid(testString, 5)
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Well... arrays are 0-based, afaik. I would argue, though... when asked for the first letter of your name, do you say "R" or "I" :)
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Well... arrays are 0-based, afaik. I would argue, though... when asked for the first letter of your name, do you say "R" or "I" :)
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They are now; but VB.NET still declares arrays by specifying the upper bound, rather than the length, because of the legacy syntax. :)
Arrays - Visual Basic | Microsoft Learn[^]
' Declare a single-dimension array of 5 numbers.
Dim numbers(4) As IntegerIn VB6 and earlier, you could use:
Dim numbers(1 To 42)
which would create an array with 1-based indices. The lower bound was optional, and the default could be changed by using the
Option Basesetting, leading to confusing code with hard to find bugs.
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They are now; but VB.NET still declares arrays by specifying the upper bound, rather than the length, because of the legacy syntax. :)
Arrays - Visual Basic | Microsoft Learn[^]
' Declare a single-dimension array of 5 numbers.
Dim numbers(4) As IntegerIn VB6 and earlier, you could use:
Dim numbers(1 To 42)
which would create an array with 1-based indices. The lower bound was optional, and the default could be changed by using the
Option Basesetting, leading to confusing code with hard to find bugs.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Richard Deeming wrote:
The lower bound was optional, and the default could be changed by using the Option Base setting, leading to confusing code with hard to find bugs.
This is definitely a problem, I agree.
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My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:
rather amazing w/ a simple visual / graphical proof : "Can you change a sum by rearranging its numbers? --- The Riemann Series Theorem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0w0f0PDdPA[^]
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Definitely worth seeing! It really hits the nail on the head. I guess that pointing out in which ways would violate the rules of The Lounge.
trønderen wrote:
I guess that pointing out in which ways would violate the rules of The Lounge.
That's why I just shared the video and said nothing else :rolleyes: :-D
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Well... arrays are 0-based, afaik. I would argue, though... when asked for the first letter of your name, do you say "R" or "I" :)
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Young software people of today believe that 0-based arrays is a law of nature, just like 1+1=2 (or possibly 11, in some interpreted, weakly typed languages). They never programmed in Pascal, Algol, Ada, Fortran, APL ... An aside: A Korean guy told me that in Korean culture, a person's age is 1-based (besides being based on a moon calendar): The first 12 months (/moons) of a baby's life, he is 1 years old. After completing one year, starting on the second, he is two. In older European prose it is not uncommon to see wordings such as "When I was in my fourteenth year", which means at age 13. Also, centuries are 1-based.
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To keep up with modern trends they are now teaching subversion :-\
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My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:
Not surprising, since the snowflakes avoid anything negative, whether it involves reality or not.
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