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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAriz. senator opposes Common Core because 'fuzzy math' substitutes letters for some numbers (!?)
Source: Capitol Media Services
Ignoring pleas from business leaders, the Senate Education Committee voted 6-3 along party lines Thursday to bar Arizona from implementing the Common Core standards the state adopted just four years earlier.
Sen. Al Melvin, R-Tucson, who championed SB 1310, said he does not doubt that the concept of some nationally recognized standards started out as a "pretty admirable pursuit by the private sector and governors.''
... Melvin's opposition led Sen. David Bradley, D-Tucson, to question him as to whether he's actually read the Common Core standards that have been adopted by 45 states.
"I've been exposed to them,'' Melvin responded.
Pressed by Bradley for specifics, Melvin said he understands that "some of the reading material is borderline pornographic.'' And he said the program uses "fuzzy math,'' substituting letters for numbers in some examples.
Read more: http://azstarnet.com/news/state-and-regional/az-senate-panel-votes-to-bar-common-core-standards/article_f2652e82-9a81-11e3-98e7-0019bb2963f4.html
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Has the esteemed gentleman from Arizona ever heard of freakin' ALGEBRA, Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch!!
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)2500 years later, the GOP still hasn't
3catwoman3
(24,109 posts)According to some RWNJs, it is only the "so-called" Pythagorean Theorem.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...it's only a 'theory®'.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)skipped learning anything at all? How the fuck does one grow up into an adult that actually gets ELECTED to office and shit like this spews out of their fucking brain? Good fucking grief.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)would just freak him out even more.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)but mostly because it's muslim.
Al-Qaeda, Al-Gebra, what's the difference to a right winger?
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)I'm giggling like an 8th grader...
Lasher
(27,665 posts)[url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url]
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"John has 5 apples. He needs n more apples to make 8. How many more apples does he need?
5 + n = 8
okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)liberal plot to bring pornography into math class. Why are the liberals allowed to push their X-rated math agenda? As he said, the reading is already borderline pornographic.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Maybe it has all just been a big conspiracy...
Enrique
(27,461 posts)"the letter shall not lie down with the number"