Thank you for the link.* My concern isn't so much that, but ...*
   it's really the whole nature of word problems.
   [1]https://vine.co/v/eavV3pLOlmD Math is something we use
   EVERYDAY in real life.* It's practical.* It's useful.* Making it
   required learning, by whatever methodology, can be helpful. But
   it's fiction.* Word problems are fiction.* Why should they care
   about "max and ruby" and collecting bottles.* It's stupid
   because it's stupid.* There's 10,000 other ways to show the same
   thing.* I hated word problems because they tried to make me care
   about these fictional character's problems and.. fact is... I
   didn't care about their problems. It didn't translate into real
   world for me. TO me, they should set up economic transactions.*
   Kids understand that just fine.* Do plays in front of class.*
   Whatever.* I dunno.* School is gonna suck as long as they have
   statistical methodologies ruling the whole process.* Fucking
   bell curve.* Hate it.* The teaching-to-a-mythological-"average"
   stuent that doesn't exist. Bullshit.* It's such an embedded
   'thing' it's impossible to eradicate.* Still annoys me though.
   Crap. I started my rant again :P

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