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A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student’s homes, according to the Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office.
On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.
Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.
Alert..... This is not satire...... I repeat...... This is not satire.
I have just one question. How can people be so stupid? Now they have me worried that the government is going to seize my old math textbooks from the college I went to, and then only criminals will have textbooks on differential equations. LOL.
Square root a gun? Louisiana student investigated over math symbol comments | Miami Herald
Yes, I admit it. I am in possession of weapons of math instruction.
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