{"id":6493,"date":"2011-09-02T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T05:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T01:40:27","slug":"friday-math-movie-miss-usa-2011-should-math-be-taught-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-miss-usa-2011-should-math-be-taught-in-schools-6493","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Miss USA 2011 - Should math be taught in schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some strong arguments about whether we should teach math in schools. It's hilarious - or very disturbing - depending on your point of view!<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9QBv2CFTSWU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some of the great lines in this video are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I do not believe in math and I don't think we should encourage it<\/li>\n<li>Math is a theory and it's not at all that the Bible tells us<\/li>\n<li>We don't know what the square root of 16 is - nobody knows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, it is a parody - and a rather biting one at that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-miss-usa-2011-should-math-be-taught-in-schools-6493#comments\" id=\"comms\">9 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-miss-usa-2011-should-math-be-taught-in-schools-6493\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Should math be taught in schools?\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/08\/should-math-taught-schools.jpg\" title=\"Should math be taught in schools?\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>This is hilarious - or very disturbing - depending on your point of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}