The gay agenda claims another young mind. Tragic.
This is a problem in my country. They are replacing Math with Gay
Gay took err jerbs!
Being gay isn’t a valid excuse for being bad at math/logic.
Edit: only 2 people are good at math?
It’s not???
You don’t need calculus when you’re fabulous.
Calculate My sparkles bitch
I may be cishet but
Off topic but after like a decade of having seen the word “cishet” I just now realized that the het part means heterosexual
What were your previous guesses? Hetalia? Heated? Het Goede Doel*?
*Dutch pop group. Don’t ask me to pronounce it since I’m physically incapable of making those sounds in that order 😄
This kid is going places.
Ya, like back to school
You don’t need to go to school if you understand things like 10 is smaller than 2 because rainbow!
Good point
I am genuinely stumped about how to explain why 3 is smaller than 10 in a way that isn’t either “because it is” or requires early university math. And the moment we go to university maths all the comments about ambiguity are true and it’s unsolvable.
You gotta remember, numerals are just arbitrary symbols that we assign meaning to. To small children, you could rearrange the order of numbers and teach them to count to ‘10’ like “7, 4, 5, 1, 8, 3, 9, 2, 6, 70!” And to them it would make perfect sense.
The symbols dont have meaning til we assign them meaning. The teacher probably implemented some way of tying meaning to the symbols, such as using tally marks. The teacher repeats the exercise many times, and then gets the kid to repeat the exercise on paper. The answer to the question is probably “3 is smaller than 10 because ‘III’ has less than ‘IIIII IIIII’”
The number 10 was probably chosen because it contains the number 1, which is less than 3, and requires an understanding of base-10 numeral system.
Its more of an abstraction and repetition question than a math question. Its hard for us to understand why a child might struggle with this, but I do remember being corrected lots of times for writing my numbers and skipping 10. Id jump straight from 9 to 11. I felt that ‘10’ didnt make sense. I insisted that 10 doesn’t exist. That was one of the hardest years of college for me.
Do you think we use base 10 because we have 10 fingers?
Yes for sure. But it didn’t have to be that way. Other cultures used base 12 (egyptians) or base 60 (babylonians).
You can count to 12 on one hand using your finger segments, and can count to 60 with both hands, using your fingers as tally markers indicating 12, 24, 36, 48 and 60.
Ten fingers gives you either base six (one hand for zero magnitude, other hand for one magnitude) or base eleven (both hands for zero magnitude).
Honestly why is 3 smaller than 10 could be a philosophical question.
But I think to a 5 year old we just kinda want them to know that numbers can be added together to get bigger. Or maybe they really are supposed to be able to decode the structure of the universe wtf do I know I want to public school in the US
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In [1]: print(min("3 10".split())) 10Ruby, 3 bytes
p 3Downvoted for completely ignoring the part where there should be input.
Get optimized
Downvoted for losing codegolf.
Ruby, 11 bytes
$><<$<.minInput: 3\n10 Output: 10Pretty sure I score double points for readability
Never question the rainbow mafia.
