The political ads have started airing in Pennsylvania, even though the (closed) primary is still a month away.
Just in time for me to officially be tired of primary season. The longer people wrangle about whether or not Clinton landed amidst sniper fire or whether or not Obama’s pastor is an America-hating racist, the more I am reminded of this.
I was recently informed (by multiple people, no less) that real Wisconsinites consider it sacrilege to put ketchup on bratwurst.
Is this true???
I’m going to argue that algebra is so hard to learn because students never really understand arithmetic to begin with. Math is inherently abstract*. If you only learn to do math in concrete terms, in the way that most elementary math is taught, you are not really learning how to do math. You are learning to be a calculator (and there’s no reason to learn how to be a calculator, because we have perfectly good ones already). But if you really understand the arithmetic, then algebra should be pretty easy.
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