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Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
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Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
#12As a kid I remember some moral outrage over ... garbage pail kids. I can handle a silly kid meme, they happen all the time.
I lived through that one as a kid and see this one as parent. This is different. A few kids at school brought garbage pail kids in and would show them at recess. This is more every kid anytime someone says these specific numbers. It's ubiquitous and constant. Nobody was throwing garbage pail kids around every math lesson.
Imagine yourself at 12yo, and just believe the axiom that saying 6 7 is funny. Your parents are telling you that interrupting math class in such a ubiquitous and constant manner is beyond the pale. They reach into their past, where "the thing banned at school" was actually acceptable and clearly different.
Maybe it depends on who you were as a kid... but if I'm who I was at 12yo, I'm going to keep doing it, and now it's way funnier. You're playing a hugely important role being the lame adult in many recess discussions. No offence.
Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
#13As a kid I remember some moral outrage over ... garbage pail kids. I can handle a silly kid meme, they happen all the time.
A bit of trivia: Garbage Pail Kids were created by Art Spiegelman, who later won the Special Pulitzer for his fantastic graphic novel "Maus" about his family's experience during the Holocaust.
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#14> Some language experts say it is not brain rot What do these language experts call "brain rot"? We're sorting things into brain-rot/not brain-rot now? I do know the definition in a you-know-it-when-you-see-it sort of sense... but I don't think "language experts" should be that dismissive of anything they haven't heard. If you keep telling kids their brains are rotted out and some arbitrary subset of things they thin…
It feels like "brain rot" has entered the phase as an equivalent to "I don't like it". There's really no meaning beyond that in the current usage.
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#15Ha I have two kids (middle and high school) and this is 100% really happening, but to be honest it is pretty hilarious
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#16> UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER: We are actually using six-seven as a call and response. Now, there's many ways that you can do it, but the way my class specifically wanted to do it was they want me to go six, and then they all go, seven.
This is hilarious. Adults embracing it and ruining it for the kids.
The pearl clutching about “brain rot” is ridiculous. This stuff is very “get off my lawn”. Is it annoying and dumb? Of course. So what?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I lived through that one as a kid and see this one as parent. This is different. A few kids at school brought garbage pail kids in and would show them at recess. This is more every kid anytime someone says these specific numbers. It's ubiquitous and constant. Nobody was throwing garbage pail kids around every math lesson.
Imagine yourself at 12yo, and just believe the axiom that saying 6 7 is funny. Your parents are telling you that interrupting math class in such a ubiquitous and constant manner is beyond the pale. They reach into their past, where "the thing banned at school" was actually acceptable and clearly different. Maybe it depends on who you were as a kid... but if I'm who I was at 12yo, I'm going to keep doing it, and now i…
Disrupting class is where the line is drawn in our house, no matter the mechanism of doing so.
Re: Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine yourself at 12yo, and just believe the axiom that saying 6 7 is funny. Your parents are telling you that interrupting math class in such a ubiquitous and constant manner is beyond the pale. They reach into their past, where "the thing banned at school" was actually acceptable and clearly different. Maybe it depends on who you were as a kid... but if I'm who I was at 12yo, I'm going to keep doing it, and now i…
Disrupting class is where the line is drawn in our house, no matter the mechanism of doing so.
If the school is creating an environment where disruption is tolerated, that’s the problem. And as a parent should absolutely council your children to not be disruptive in class. But “6 7” isn’t the problem here.
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#19My son is into this. At the pool yesterday I heard some kids counting up for a game. When they reached 6 and 7, they said 6-7. My son found that pretty funny.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine yourself at 12yo, and just believe the axiom that saying 6 7 is funny. Your parents are telling you that interrupting math class in such a ubiquitous and constant manner is beyond the pale. They reach into their past, where "the thing banned at school" was actually acceptable and clearly different. Maybe it depends on who you were as a kid... but if I'm who I was at 12yo, I'm going to keep doing it, and now i…
Disrupting class is where the line is drawn in our house, no matter the mechanism of doing so.
As it should! Just know that people between your age and their age see the common through-line here, and it might not be as serious as it feels. I’ll become blind to it as well in a while haha, sadly comes with becoming more wise.
Personal anecdata: 69 showing up in any math class was comedy gold in early 2010s highscool. The class was interrupted for impromptu 1 word stand up.