I have seen this a time or two and it's painful.
It's painful for a number of reasons besides the fact that I can't wear it because I use Algebra every day of my life.
Here's a few reasons I can think of right off:
1. This gives math a bad name, especially algebra.
2. People don't understand algebra enough to know if/when they are even using it, which makes me think that the way we teach algebra is not in the best way to help all people understand how it can be used.
3. People don't know how different their life would be without algebra: the problems that couldn't be solved, the patterns that wouldn't have been discovered, the fun that they could be having.
4. Some topics in algebra that are being taught to students are not applicable to most people's everyday life, but we continue to drag everyone through the mud causing them to have such a distaste for math.
5. This anti-math advertising turns people off to math; just like when I have parents come to conferences to say they were bad at math so their student/child will be too.
My new t-shirt idea:
√(-1) woke up ≈ 2 hours ago have already used algebra 4π.
I <3 math.
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Thanks Jen for a blog topic today :)
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