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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 5 days ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Another post from betting market company Polymarket read: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." The post has almost 14 million views.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The monster! My kids will learn Roman numerals and Greek math that stops at 10000! Like nature intended!

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Next thing you know, they'll be teaching our kids algebra and algorithms.

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Al-Gebra

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

And Al-Khawarizmi.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah but at least it won't affect my Al-cohol

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“Zero”? The fuck kind of sorcery is this? If a number can’t be counted, it has no place in my concept of math!

- Ancient Romans

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

OK kids, pop quiz, grab your chisels and work out the square root of XXV!

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

You get IX/X, I took a mark off because you didn't show your work.