{"id":1580,"date":"2005-09-12T01:49:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T01:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/09\/12\/why_culture_mat.html"},"modified":"2005-09-12T01:49:14","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T01:49:14","slug":"why_culture_mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/09\/12\/why_culture_mat.html","title":{"rendered":"why culture matters even in math class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently decided to quit his tech job and become a high school math teacher (a move that still has my jaw on the floor in awe).  He&#8217;s been tracking the tough lessons of being a new teacher on <a href=\"http:\/\/understanding.mindtangle.net\/\">a blog<\/a>.  This morning, he posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/understanding.mindtangle.net\/?p=15\">why culture matters<\/a> and his experience has had me smiling all day.  For those who are link shy, i&#8217;ll summarize:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Homework question: &#8220;While in France last summer I bought a hat for 25.50. A friend bought a similar hat for 5 in the United States. What&#8217;s going on here? Explain completely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Expected answer: &#8220;something about different currencies and exchange rates.  This question comes in the context of problems about length and area, so the importance of units in measurement is being emphasized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Student answer: &#8220;Two possibilities: 1, the hat your friend bought was fake. It said similar not same. 2, you got ripped off in France because your [sic] a tourist.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ROFL!  I just want to reach out and hug his student &#8211; that just rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently decided to quit his tech job and become a high school math teacher (a move that still has my jaw on the floor in awe). He&#8217;s been tracking the tough lessons of being a new teacher on a blog. This morning, he posted about why culture matters and his experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","tag-culture-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}