{"id":414,"date":"2006-10-07T06:48:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T06:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2014-11-09T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T01:55:14","slug":"math-illiteracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/math-illiteracy-414","title":{"rendered":"Math illiteracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/+math+gifts\">CafePress store<\/a> selling funny math paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/+math+gifts\"><img id=\"image413\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/10\/illiteracy.gif\" alt=\"illiteracy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text of the image:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"Math illiteracy affects 4 out of every 3 people\".<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps this might be a good extra curricular activity, to encourage students to think of funny or ironic ways to express mathematics concepts (or to highlight misconceptions). Math doesn't have to always be about numbers and calculation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A funny math T-shirt company has some great gift ideas for that math geek in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}