I was in elementary school when New Math swept the school district (make this around late 60s to very early 70s), and we went from a math book that was page after page of addition and multiplication problems to a math book that talked about … well crazy stuff.
Like set theory. Sets. Supersets. Subsets. Unions. Intersections.
I loved it. I can't speak for the effectiveness of New Math (effectiveness at what, I'd ask), but set theory really made me happy.
Of course, we didn't get into the really deep high mathematics of set theory and Cantor and all of that. But I guess some fundies are afraid of that kind of exposure as a gateway drug, because, well, they seem to be dead-set against it.
Why? Well, here's a possible explanation …
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What do Christian fundamentalists have against set theory?
I've mentioned here before that I went to fundamentalist Christian schools from grade 8 through grade 11. I learned high school biology from a Bob Jones University textbook, watched videos of Ken Ham …
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As someone who spent lots of time on set theory in graduate school, if the theory about why Fundamentalist Christians are against set theory is correct, then I think that the Fundamentalist Christians have a poor understanding of set theory.
Yeah, that would be a real shocker. 😛