That's all well and good as long as kids are also taught the distributive law and thoroughly understand it.
And that's the problem. Too many kids are taught the method, but don't understand the underlying theory which justifies the method. Either they were poorly taught or they were never taught.
There many times where dyscalculia resides within the teacher, not the student.
Interesting juxtaposition: Insurance firm Wellpoint pays $300,000 for criminally irresponsible late disclosure of its 470,000 medical record security breaches and RIAA is awarded $1,500,000 for 24 illegally downloaded songs.
It makes sense. Why does it make sense?
It makes sense because Insurance firms and RIAA have bought off Congress, which makes the laws, and the criminal justice system, which enforces the laws.
Yes, it's a preposterously large judgment, which Guerbuez will never pay. And that's not final judgment. It'll be orders of magnitude smaller.
But while Guerbuez is desperately trying to weasel out of paying, Canada and the United States will be aggressively pursuing his assets, which will keep him extremely busy, which will severely curtail his spamming.
So I'm all for this judgment, no matter how preposterous.
Human hubris
Our pre-conceptualizations are incorrect, based on two human misconceptions:
1. Animals are smarter than we realize, and
2. Humans are dumber than we realize.
Distributive law
It's the distributive law. In this particular case:
36 * 24 = (30 + 6) * (20 + 4) = 30 * 20 + 30 * 4 + 6 * 20 + 6 * 4
In general: (a + b) * (c + d) = ac + ad + bc + bd
That's all well and good as long as kids are also taught the distributive law and thoroughly understand it.
And that's the problem. Too many kids are taught the method, but don't understand the underlying theory which justifies the method. Either they were poorly taught or they were never taught.
There many times where dyscalculia resides within the teacher, not the student.
Bye Bye Brazil
Brazil, if your goal is to make yourself irrelevant and appear ridiculous, you succeeded.
It makes sense
Interesting juxtaposition: Insurance firm Wellpoint pays $300,000 for criminally irresponsible late disclosure of its 470,000 medical record security breaches and RIAA is awarded $1,500,000 for 24 illegally downloaded songs.
It makes sense. Why does it make sense?
It makes sense because Insurance firms and RIAA have bought off Congress, which makes the laws, and the criminal justice system, which enforces the laws.
Keep him busy
O Canada, you did the right thing.
Yes, it's a preposterously large judgment, which Guerbuez will never pay. And that's not final judgment. It'll be orders of magnitude smaller.
But while Guerbuez is desperately trying to weasel out of paying, Canada and the United States will be aggressively pursuing his assets, which will keep him extremely busy, which will severely curtail his spamming.
So I'm all for this judgment, no matter how preposterous.
Finland knows
Am reminded of a line from Earth Girls Are Easy: "Finland knows what you want."