@nologos_ No big insight. Peterson’s reactionary drivel seems in high demand, that’s all. It might be more of a challenge to fill a stadium with a lecture on Schelling or linear algebra or jewel beetles.
I'm hard-pressed to think of a more momentous Term in the Supreme Court's history. Ever.
Maybe there have been individual decisions that were more important, but the number of significant, paradigm-shifting rulings, and all in the *same* direction, really has no precedent IMHO.
@hankgreen Darker yellow is green! Color perception requires not only the correct frequencies, but also cliffs of changing frequency, & green is outsized in our visual color space, so decreasing value of colors can arc through there often. Follow color.nerd��s tiktok: he knows everything.
@PrepMatters If we could have elementary school children be instructed by great math communicators with a deep understanding of math (and/or Montessori-trained instructors), I think it would be massively helpful for those facing math anxiety.
@PrepMatters Common core brought with it the requirement to teach similar concepts in several ways, which is great. And I’m general, I think educators are mostly on board that a nuturing pedagogy beats a punitive one.
@PrepMatters And there’s little incentive for elementary teachers (who may have math anxiety themselves) to challenge this innate-specialness perspective. It’s less painful to think nothing can be done than that we were given really bad tools for elementary math instruction.
@PrepMatters I think it’s gotten better, but when I was a kid, the incentives here were all messed up: kids who enjoyed math got better at it faster and were called special. So those kids want to think of math as like a special thing we’re born with.