I hate that when i see memes like this all i can think is “its only a matter of time before stupid people share this with other stupid people unironically”
It probably happened before you even saw the meme.
Fox News is gonna run a piece on how we must eliminate Arabic numerals from American society. Your family will be talking about this travesty at Thanksgiving.
He’s indoctrinating out youth with a satanic Muslim mysticism called Al-Gebra.
in case some people don’t know: algebra actually comes from the Arabic word “al-jabr”.
you can count on it
Would have been a better headline!
Thy hips shall not speak falsehoods.
I learned Arabic numerals in 1978 in preschool in Wyoming, and I never became a terrorist.
Never became a terrorist so far.
Oh Facebook must be lighting up with frothing boomers right now
Roman! Cousin, let’s go bowling!
literally in the middle of a fucking mission
This post came directly from Al Jazeer which references Al Gebra.
A new Home maker class featuring falafel and hummus as side dishes is now mandatory to graduate High school.
Fuck, I would have enjoyed that course.
Gods forbid we teach kids useful life skills…
“Children will be thaught how to make shawarma at home.”
Well to be fair, the republicunts would prefer kids not learn any numbers because only stupid people vote for Cons…
Funny that in Chinese, I literally have always known it as 阿拉伯數字 (Arabic Numerals).
I’m starting to realize more and more how much the Chinese Language is just simply better at teaching concepts.
Disclaimer, I am ethnic Chinese, but I’m totally not biased at all :D
Edit:
Also, while we’re on the topic of Numerals, teach Chinese Numbers as well, its literally one syllable per character, much easier to pronounce and remember.
English has become my primary language, but I still often find myself counting in Chinese (Cantonese).
We call them Arabic numerals too but the street name is numbers. Very powerful concept
I once said “Arabic Numerals” in class (US), and my classmates thought I was trying to be racist… like… bruh… that’s literally what these nunbers are called…
So yeah… I never used that term once again.
Chinese/Japanese characters have kindof always led to good student outcomes in wrote memorization because of the necessity of pattern recognition. With an alphabet there’s simply less to learn, and you don’t have much context since etymology in alphabet based languages is so much more esoteric.
Also, Americans aren’t really taught much about technology from outside of the American sphere of influence. American schooling has a lot of dead zones.
I support this wholeheartedly.
ITS AN OUTRAGE I TELL YOU! MATH IS AMERICAN! INVENTED IN AMERICA!
Aryabhata and Brahmagupta approve.
