you've heard the "weapons of math instruction" joke?

[markw]

Turns out it's not a joke anymore.

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2016/05/professor_questioned_for_doing_math_on_plane_taugh.html#incart_river_home

 

[herbu]

Well, the guy had 3 strikes against him...
1. Foreigner
2. Princeton professor
3. Likely liberal, (see #1 and #2 above)
Better safe than sorry.

(OK guys. I normally don't do it, but this time I'll flat out tell you that the above is in jest.)

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

 

[Chu Gai]

Wouldn't have happened if he'd been doing Common Core math.

 

[highfigh]

People used to kill what they didn't understand- I guess she's either a time traveler or just a blithering idiot.