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Should schools in America teach Arabic numerals as part of the standard curriculum?

Should schools in America teach Arabic numerals as part of the curriculum?

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Threegoofs

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I just heard about this, and it disturbed me.

Kids as young as six years old in some school districts are being forced to learn this.

A larger, national poll has already been done, but I'm curious as how the DP crowd will vote.


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Threegoofs said:
I just heard about this, and it disturbed me.

Kids as young as six years old in some school districts are being forced to learn this.

A larger, national poll has already been done, but I'm curious as how the DP crowd will vote.
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Article? Link? Context?
 
Voted no, even though this is a bit misleading.
 
omg :roll: No more Arabic numerals! | Keep Arabic numerals out of our schools!

Got that piece looking up what the heck is this about.

Good, God-fearing, Christian parents can not allow these foreign influences to be forced upon America's children any longer. If Arab immigrants want to teach their children Arabic numerals and use them in their own home, that is of course their right. And as Americans, who are welcoming and not at all xenophobic, we accept this. However it is NOT okay for them to use Arabic numerals in plain sight of our American children, giving them the idea that a decimal-based counting system is acceptable. These offensive, foreign influences have no place in the classroom and we will no longer suffer the persecution of our American values for the sake of this foreign numbering system.
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:lamo Gosh dern forrin numbers, we ain't fixin to be learned 'round hurr!
 
It is true reflection of an uneducated population we have.

I guess you start using Arabic numerals then Sharia law can't be that far away.
 
Crosscheck said:
It is true reflection of an uneducated population we have.

I guess you start using Arabic numerals then Sharia law can't be that far away.
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you got one! good fishing
 
This is one of those "Ban dihydrogen monoxide" things that they do on college campuses.
 
I voted to bomb Iran because it's the goofiest answer.:mrgreen:
 
Should schools in America teach Arabic numerals as part of the standard curriculum?
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What? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0 are the Arabic numerals. What you see in the preceding sentence is what they look like. Why the hell would/should schools not teach them?

Every once in a while, folks use Roman numerals, but overwhelmingly, Arabic numerals are the ones taught and used by everybody all the time, all around the world. I mean, really. One can go to the PRC or Japan and, if nothing else, one'll recognize written numbers.


In the image below the numeral types are, from the top down:
  • Arabic numerals
  • Eastern Arabic numerals
  • Roman numerals
  • Bengali–Assamese numerals
  • Malayalam numerals
  • Thai numerals
  • Chinese numerals


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Threegoofs said:
I just heard about this, and it disturbed me.

Kids as young as six years old in some school districts are being forced to learn this.

A larger, national poll has already been done, but I'm curious as how the DP crowd will vote.


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Aren't Arabic numerals 1 2 3 4 5 6 and so forth?

Do these people want to go back to clumsy Roman numerals we're 27 is expressed in five digits?
 
Threegoofs said:
I just heard about this, and it disturbed me.

Kids as young as six years old in some school districts are being forced to learn this.

A larger, national poll has already been done, but I'm curious as how the DP crowd will vote.


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OMFG!!! Over 70% of the respondents voted no or didn't have an opinion! Seriously?
 
CLAX1911 said:
Aren't Arabic numerals 1 2 3 4 5 6 and so forth?

Do these people want to go back to clumsy Roman numerals we're 27 is expressed in five digits?
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Yes, that's exactly what Arabic numerals are.

I wonder how many folks don't realize that we say "algebra" because the West's understanding of math came by way Muslims, Arabs, Moors.


 
Xelor said:
Yes, that's exactly what Arabic numerals are.

I wonder how many folks don't realize that we say "algebra" because the West's understanding of math came by way Muslims, Arabs, Moors.


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I remember learning the origin of the numbers we use in second grade. And the origins of algebra algebra class which was 7th grade.
 
Threegoofs said:
I just heard about this, and it disturbed me.

Kids as young as six years old in some school districts are being forced to learn this.

A larger, national poll has already been done, but I'm curious as how the DP crowd will vote.


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Is this a joke? Teaching kids Arabic numerals (aka the digits of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and ect.) is unlikely to change.

Arabic numerals are the ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. The term often implies a number written in the Hindu–Arabic numeral system[1] (where the position of a digit indicates the power of 10 to multiply it by), the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today. However, it can also refer to the digits themselves, such as in the statement "octal numbers are written using Arabic numerals."
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Arabic numerals - Wikipedia
 
CLAX1911 said:
I remember learning the origin of the numbers we use in second grade. And the origins of algebra algebra class which was 7th grade.
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Would that far more folks than you remember what they were taught in the 2nd and 7th grades, along with the material from the intervening grades.
 
CLAX1911 said:
Aren't Arabic numerals 1 2 3 4 5 6 and so forth?

Do these people want to go back to clumsy Roman numerals we're 27 is expressed in five digits?
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Just think of doing long division with Roman numerals. We'd have to get wider black boards or dry erase boards, or whatever they use in schools these days. The mind boggles.
 
What is next? Instead of speaking American we are going to have speak some language from Europe?
 
CLAX1911 said:
Aren't Arabic numerals 1 2 3 4 5 6 and so forth?

Do these people want to go back to clumsy Roman numerals we're 27 is expressed in five digits?
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Western Arabic numerals, yes. Eastern Arabic numerals used in the Middle East are quite different in script.
 
Xelor said:
Would that far more folks than you remember what they were taught in the 2nd and 7th grades, along with the material from the intervening grades.
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Well I just remembered absolutely despising Roman numerals. I went to school in the late 80s and early 90s and so when I got to write out 1992 in clumsy cumbersome Roman numerals. I can't remember how many digits it had but it was ridiculous. I can't believe people think that crap is fancy.

And I'm one of those people that is very curious about history and the reason why we do things the way we do and so I'm always asking those questions.
 
bearpoker said:
Just think of doing long division with Roman numerals. We'd have to get wider black boards or dry erase boards, or whatever they use in schools these days. The mind boggles.
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Think about using a calculator. Where they have 10 digits I'm just trying to picture what a calculator keypad would look like. Or a combination lock.
 
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