/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9175227
jokes on you kiddo I have two geoscience degrees, one of which is from a top-10 uni.
not top-10 in the USA. in the world.

>can't predict one roll of the dice
>can supposedly predict the results of tens of thousands of dice rolls
if you really believed this is how it works, you'd be at the casino right now trying to beat the system, not shitposting on a Nigerien parasailing imageboard.

>>9052739
I am honestly curious what /Sci/ thinks of this, besides /pol/ memes about niggers

To me understand that someone taking office administration or medical transcription aren't going to need to know about quadratic equations. But there's such a push to get POC into higher education and STEM, isn't this just going to segregate them further, where POC coming from bad schools will pick programs that have the remediate math courses, shutting them out of STEM

it seems like it'd be better to focus on better math education upstream in hs vs just saying algebra is racist because it keeps black people from graduating. I'm just racking my brain because basic algebra is so useful and applicable to everyday math problems most people would ever need to figure out, I don't think replacing it with an applied statistics or accounting course is going to serve the majority of students.

But I'm an engineer and while I don't use multivariable calculus that much, I use basic algebra all the time, maybe I'm biased