Re: Reply to Discalcula and the american public

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From: Edward Bertsch
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 18:01

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>If someone says that they can't READ, Americans immediately jump on the
>bandwagon and push for literacy training.  We should do the same for
>mathematical illiteracy!

It's called innumeracy, and there is a book by the same name.

>It's like when I went into a local Burger King when their sign said that
>Whoppers cost just  .99 cents .  When I explained to the manager that their
>sign said that I could get a Whopper for one penny, he laughed and said,
>"But that's not what it says."  I said it was, but still lost the argument.

someone else on the list took this up with corporate (Pepsico?) and
was able to get free food for their entire class, as a fieldtrip
demonstrating practical use of mathematics.  Try it out!

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