Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> I love the wikipedia - a source of information - and its parodies,
> the uncyclopedia and the conservapedia - sources of humor.
>
> But I didn't get this:
> http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Critical_Thinking_in_Math
>
> What is it? Biblically correct math? Does the course prove
> that Pi = 3?
Alberto--
An interesting find! That's the first I've heard of the
Conservapedia. It's sometimes hard to tell, but my sense
is that it's not actually meant as humor?
The course could be intended for bright homeschooled
students. A good teacher could present all the topics
on the syllabus at a 9th grade level, in the sense that
students would learn some of it, but remain fuzzy on the
rigorous details.
That proof that pi is 3 would probably come under
"alternative proof techniques", as "uncritically
believing EVERY SINGLE word in the King James Bible".
---David
"And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it
was round all about, ... and a line of thirty cubits did compass it
round about."
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