The Onion on a New Form of Mathematics

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1. Fred Smith says:

   March 3, 2016 at 4:28 pm

   Not particularly funny or clever. Merely derivative of the Tisch-King Common Core postulate that said Down is Up. And probably an expansion of Bloomberg’s addition by subtraction corollary to account for gains in test scores, Really too sophomoric and unworthy of the Onion in its effort to dump Trump. Eureka!

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   • Laura H. Chapman says:

     March 3, 2016 at 4:34 pm

     Fred. Not entirely satire. The methodology is an upgrade to concepts in this paper about “approximate reasoning,”

     Click to access The%20Concept%20of%20a%20Linguistic%20Variable%20and%20its%20Applications%20to%20Approximate%20Reasoning%20I-1975.pdf

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   • Fred Smith says:

     March 3, 2016 at 8:46 pm

     Laura,

     Thanks. More complex than trying to parse a Murry Kempton sentence.

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2. Ed Johnson says:

   March 3, 2016 at 4:32 pm

   If you think that’s something, this will, ah, well, trump it…

   http://www.theonion.com/article/obama-transformed-20-foot-tall-monster-president-a-52471

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3. Jim Realini says:

   March 3, 2016 at 4:48 pm

   More from the Onion
   http://www.theonion.com/graphic/hillary-clintons-campaign-myth-vs-fact-52470

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4. Jim Realini says:

   March 3, 2016 at 4:52 pm

   In this next election we all will lose.
   The liar (allegedly because we all know that politicians mean what they are scripted to say at that moment because a “focus group” said it was acceptable, until the next focus group or facts cloud the issue) vs the Chump (because the media and his haters say so)

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5. artseagal says:

   March 3, 2016 at 6:19 pm

   Ha ha ha… sounds like how they calculate Student Learning Objectives and VAM! Let the Onion try to “explain” these “educational” tidbits verbatim because it reads like satire!

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6. Duane Swacker says:

   March 3, 2016 at 6:35 pm

   Virginiasgp has complete faith in the new discipline of Nonlinear Computational Probability to help in his quest to rid the world of incompetent teachers.

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   • Duane Swacker says:

     March 3, 2016 at 6:37 pm

     NCP used with VAM is guaranteed to identify with 99.99% accuracy those incompetent teachers.

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7. Old Teacher says:

   March 3, 2016 at 9:32 pm

   Duane, you forgot to mention that that (the incompetent) will be any breathing human being in a classroom. Robots and computers will have their own super secret Algorithm Supposedly Supporting Holographic Orderly Liaison Encapsulated Synchronized teaching. Humans need not apply.

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   • Duane Swacker says:

     March 4, 2016 at 10:37 am

     Good thing I’m diagnosed AI!

     TAGO!

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8. Robert Rendo, NBCT says:

   March 3, 2016 at 11:18 pm

   These same mathematics are what shaped our current statisticians who determined the APPR formula for each state . . . . .

   The states are still in for a big fight, for the most part, and the Donald is just so pathetic and sad and dangerous . . . although he is right, just as Sanders is, when they both claim that that establishment politics are heinous and destructive. Most of the Donkeys and Elephants need to be poached big time and replaced with a new third party.

   The main difference between the two is that Sanders tells the truth because he believes in what he says, and the Donald just lies to get his way with people. He is pathetic.

   And Milania, for God’s sake, get a tutor and improve your grammar!

   Feel the Bern . . .

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9. drext727 says:

   March 4, 2016 at 8:47 am

   Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.

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10. Máté Wierdl says:

    March 11, 2016 at 12:40 pm

    Not knowing anything about Onion, I thought the article was serious—due to my previous exposure to the voodoo science of VAM.

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