{"id":127999,"date":"2015-09-14T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T00:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/should-math-be-taught-in-schools.html"},"modified":"2015-09-15T06:43:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T12:43:55","slug":"should-math-be-taught-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/should-math-be-taught-in-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"Should Math be taught in schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This started floating around the Internet again this weekend, though it&#39;s actually from a few years back (and is a parody of the much less amusing &quot;Should Evolution should be taught in school&quot; question asked of the actual Miss USA 2011 contestants, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UkBmhM0R2A0\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/UkBmhM0R2A0<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103453067516847485667\" oid=\"103453067516847485667\">Kay Hill<\/a><\/span>, maybe you should talk with your math teacher about this &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9QBv2CFTSWU' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/UZethmdJviD'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This started floating around the Internet again this weekend, though it&#39;s actually from a few years back (and is a parody of the much less amusing &quot;Should Evolution should be taught in school&quot; question asked of the actual Miss USA 2011 contestants, https:\/\/youtu.be\/UkBmhM0R2A0). +Kay Hill, maybe you should talk with your math teacher about this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/should-math-be-taught-in-schools.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should Math be taught in schools?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,30,110,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-jokes","category-religious-zanies","category-school-daze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41386,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/hooray-for-newer-math.html","url_meta":{"origin":127999,"position":0},"title":"Hooray for New(er) Math!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Mar-14 11:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"Huh. 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Originally shared by +Les Jenkins: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Irrational Wednesday Book Reviews! The Victorian Internet (Standage). A delightful quick history of the telegraph, which shows that much of the things we think are unique to the Internet were present about 150 years ago,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128012,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127999\/revisions\/128012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}