{"id":10500,"date":"2011-12-08T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10500"},"modified":"2011-12-08T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T08:00:19","slug":"theyre-as-bad-as-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10500","title":{"rendered":"That Other Roach in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/the_innumeracy_of_educators_or.php\">The Innumeracy of Educators, or Mark Twain Was Right<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just for fun, here&#8217;s a selection of a few of the problems from the 2006 math test given to tenth graders, the one where Mr. Roach didn&#8217;t know how to answer any of them, and &#8220;Not a single one of [his friends] said that the math I described was necessary in their profession.&#8221; See if you&#8217;re smarter than a Florida school board member<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Innumeracy of Educators, or Mark Twain Was Right Just for fun, here&#8217;s a selection of a few of the problems from the 2006 math test given to tenth graders, the one where Mr. Roach didn&#8217;t know how to answer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10500\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}