Fox News: Algebra is socialist indoctrination

[pokerfan]

Who would have thunk?

“But even worse is the way some textbooks are pushing the liberal agenda,” the Fox News host explained, pointing to an algebra worksheet that Scholastic says gives students “nsight into the distributive property as it applies to multiplication.”

“Distribute the wealth!” Bolling exclaimed, reading the worksheet. “Distribute the wealth with the lovely rich girl with a big ole bag of money, handing some money out.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/10/eric-bolling-schools-pushing-the-liberal-agenda-by-teaching-algebra/

[MADem]

1. Hell, those nitwits can't fathom Bill Clinton's 'arithmetic'...you expect them to figure out algebra

as well?

Besides, al-gebra is an ARABIC word! It's the mathematics of TERRISTS, doncha know!!!

http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/lgeller/algebra.html

[Recursion]

2. In fairness, he's complaining about the title of the worksheet, which is "distribute the wealth"

Not about the fact that it's teaching the distributive property.

[mathematic]

21. It's nice that this was the 2nd post.

It's less nice that nobody seems to have read it.

I think this is a pretty dumb way to illustrate the distributive property for the following reasons:
1) Money can be distributed unequally.
2) Handing out money is addition, not multiplication.
3) People do not form a ring, in particular they cannot be added together. And no, I don't count some sort of figurative let-our-powers-combine sort of way. I mean literally.

[DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav]

3. God forbid we teach the kids to count past the number of fingers on their hand.

[TexasTowelie]

4. I thought that it was a Muslim conspiracy

since the word algebra comes from the Arabic language.

[Orrex]

7. That's the silliest thing I've ever heard

Next you'll be claiming that they came up with the zero.

[TexasTowelie]

19. You didn't get the joke?

I was providing the logical alternative to the socialist indoctrination theory promoted by Fox.

[Orrex]

20. No, I got it.

[samsingh]

5. is this satire?

[pokerfan]

8. How does Stephen Colbert top this?

[samsingh]

11. the equal sign is socialist

[krispos42]

9. With Faux News, who can tell??? n/t

[samsingh]

10. true

math as a whole is socialist as it allows you to count and divide

[krispos42]

12. It lets the PEOPLE count and divide...

...and then conquer!

[Recursion]

16. No, but it's poorly reported. He doesn't like the title of the worksheet.

The worksheet on the distributive property is titled "Distribute the Wealth". That's what he's complaining about.

[Initech]

6. Oh that evil al Gebra, what will you think of next?

Maybe that if you multiply two like terms that they will somehow cause a catastrophic terrorist attack?

[krispos42]

13. That anti-American news network?

[jsr]

14. And calculus is positively communist

[pokerfan]

15. Don't get them started on astronomy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arabic_star_names

[Rex]

17. What the high fuck is wrong with these...ahem...people?

How do they keep a job!!?!?! That is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. And the stuff about GWB and no WMDs...it is true you fucking idiots! How can millionaires sit there and bray about algebra when they have a 3rd grade comprehension level? No? Maybe lower you say?

This is the same group that describes criminals as 'evil doers' to their audience. Got to keep they wording way way down there.

[Glassunion]

18. WTF!?!? Now simply words by themselves are an issue?

Every time I see the words "Ass Hole" I don't think trickle down economics.
Every time I see the word "moron" I don't think Tea Party

What an ass...