Whitee - Purveyor of Fine Beats...Provider of Lyrical Treats
Music, culture & politics. We'll also update Whitee's recording progress.Sunday, July 16, 2006
If you're a teacher you've heard this...heck, if you ever been a student you've heard this. "Why do we have to learn this?" Or some variation thereof.
When I'm teaching and someone asks me this, I ususally have an answer - not one that satisfies the kid, but an answer. But now I have an example...a real, true-to-life example of the flaming example of useless education: the Pythagorean theorem.
Yep. It was actually used, by a judge, in court, to refute a lawsuit. Read about it here.
So Math Teachers, the next time a snotty kid asks you why do they have to learn the Pythagorean theorem, hit him with the story of the judge that figured out the bathroom stink retention coefficient of a prison cell using the all-mighty Pythagorean theorem.
Class dimsissed.
When I'm teaching and someone asks me this, I ususally have an answer - not one that satisfies the kid, but an answer. But now I have an example...a real, true-to-life example of the flaming example of useless education: the Pythagorean theorem.
Yep. It was actually used, by a judge, in court, to refute a lawsuit. Read about it here.
So Math Teachers, the next time a snotty kid asks you why do they have to learn the Pythagorean theorem, hit him with the story of the judge that figured out the bathroom stink retention coefficient of a prison cell using the all-mighty Pythagorean theorem.
Class dimsissed.
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