{"id":29017,"date":"2012-08-07T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T23:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/set-theory-the-subset-of-all-evil.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:27:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:27:35","slug":"set-theory-the-subset-of-all-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/set-theory-the-subset-of-all-evil.html","title":{"rendered":"Set Theory – the Subset of All Evil!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/i> stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like set theory. Sets. Supersets. Subsets. Unions. Intersections.<\/p>\n

I loved it. I can't speak for the effectiveness of New Math (effectiveness at what,<\/i> I'd ask), but set theory really made me happy.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Why? Well, here's a possible explanation …<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0 Like set theory. Sets. Supersets. Subsets. … Continue reading “Set Theory – the Subset of All Evil!”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3627,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/15\/just_the_theory.html","url_meta":{"origin":29017,"position":0},"title":"Just the Theory, Ma’am","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Oct-02 5:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Georgia School Board Bans 'Theory Of Math' COGDELL, GA - The Cogdell School Board banned the teaching of the controversial \"Theory Of Math\" in its schools Monday. \"We are simply...","rel":"","context":"In "Science & Nature"","block_context":{"text":"Science & Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7574,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/01\/things_that_are.html","url_meta":{"origin":29017,"position":1},"title":"Things That Are Bad","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Feb-05 1:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A fine instruction in how to use a Venn Diagram. 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