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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday August 10 2019, @01:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the death-by-litigation dept.

A parent whose child goes to a high school in the Wake County Public School System has been sued after criticizing the math curriculum used in the district.

Utah-based "Mathematics Vision Project" or "MVP," filed a lawsuit against Blain Dillard, whose son attends Green Hope High in Cary.

Dillard has been vocal about his opposition to the MVP curriculum, which is student-driven and focuses on group work, posting on his website, blog and social media.

The lawsuit obtained by ABC11 said, "In or around March 2019, Dillard commenced a crusade against MVP, claiming that MVP is ineffective and has harmed many students."

It alleges that some of Dillard's statements were false and defamatory and harmed the company financially.

https://abc11.com/education/wake-schools-parent-sued-after-criticizing-math-curriculum/5430840/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @12:41PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @12:41PM (#878202)

    I never learned times tables, and I can do the same thing. All that time you spent memorizing could have been spent doing math (and in the process you would have encountered variations on 50/9 often enough to memorize it anyway).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @12:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @12:59PM (#878211)

    *50/6

  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday August 10 2019, @02:17PM (2 children)

    by Nuke (3162) on Saturday August 10 2019, @02:17PM (#878246)

    So how would you do it other than doing 9+9+9+9+9+9 in your head or on fingers which would be much slower than my 6x9 ? I'm interested. Even doing 9+9 = 18 is something I know by rote rater than incrementing from 9 by 9 units, one at a time.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @03:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @03:17PM (#878272)

      6 shl 1 = 60 sub 6 = 54.
      Two basic operations, one very fast, one possibly slower.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @11:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @11:03PM (#878528)

      For some reason I don't understand, the 7, 8, or 9 being multiplied by one of the other (but not by itself) has always been difficult for me to feel confident I've memorized. I mean, I know we're talking about 56, 63, and 72, but invariably, I question if it is correct, and then visualize a number line to confirm it. So if it is 8*9 (or vice versa), I go up to 80, then drop back an 8 length block, and then I think, yep, 72. For 7*8 (or vice versa), I'll go to the easy 8*8=64, then drop back an 8 length block. And 9*7 is just a variation of 8*9, but I drop back a 7 length block from 70.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @02:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @02:23PM (#878248)

    The time it takes to memorize that 10x10 times tables is not that much. There are a total of 100 squares in that and if you take advantage of the commutative property of multiplication, you wind up with something like 45 of them to actually memorize. And that includes the 1s and 10s which are more or less trivial for most people. If you do 1 per day, you'd be done in less than a month.

    The 12x12 times table takes slightly longer, but again, doing even one a day, you'd be done in short order. If you do 4 a day, you'd be done within a couple weeks.

    What's more, it's not like there's a better way of doing it. Multiplication is about stretching, and trying to understand how that works without first knowing how to multiply is a bit of a challenge.