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    PIEBALDconsult
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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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      My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:

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      Slacker007
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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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        My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:

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        Jeremy Falcon
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        Um... I want to say something about this, but it would break every rule of the lounge. :-O

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          Um... I want to say something about this, but it would break every rule of the lounge. :-O

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          Slacker007
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          devil on the shoulder: do it! nothing wrong with a little, rule breaking, every now and then. :laugh:

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            devil on the shoulder: do it! nothing wrong with a little, rule breaking, every now and then. :laugh:

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            Jeremy Falcon
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            I'm gonna send it to you telepathically, man. Points fingers to forehead. Let me know if you got it.

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            • P PIEBALDconsult

              My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:

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              dandy72
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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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                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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                Nelek
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                Alternative Math | Short Film - YouTube[^] Worth seeing

                M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                • P PIEBALDconsult

                  My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:

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                  Marc Clifton
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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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                  • P PIEBALDconsult

                    My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:

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                    RickZeeland
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                    To keep up with modern trends they are now teaching subversion :-\

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                    • P PIEBALDconsult

                      My wife just told me she heard a rumor that some elementary schools have stopped teaching subtraction. :sigh:

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                      Mike Hankey
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                      Did they remove the subtraction function from calculators? :)

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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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                        jmaida
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                        "Less is more" comes to mind.

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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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                          trønderen
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                          Two's complement.

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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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                            trønderen
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                            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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                              trønderen
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                              No, but in IT schools they made teaching or use of SVN forbidden.

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                                No, but in IT schools they made teaching or use of SVN forbidden.

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                                Mike Hankey
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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

                                  M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                                  trønderen
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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.

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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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                                    Amarnath S
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                                    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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                                      CPallini
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                                      Thanks to YouTube et al., my children know far more math than I did at their age.

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                                      In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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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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                                        Richard Deeming
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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:


                                        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

                                        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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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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                                          Johnny J
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                                          You don't need subtraction. You just need to learn addition of negative numbers... :-\

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