The familiar, hierarchical sequence of math instruction starts with counting, followed by addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division. The computational set expands to include bigger and bigger numbers, and at some point, fractions enter the picture, too. Then in early adolescence, students are introduced to patterns of numbers and letters, in the entirely new subject of algebra. A minority of students then wend their way through geometry, trigonometry and, finally, calculus, which is considered the pinnacle of high-school-level math.

But this progression actually “has nothing to do with how people think, how children grow and learn, or how mathematics is built,” says pioneering math educator and curriculum designer Maria Droujkova. She echoes a number of voices from around the world that want to revolutionize the way math is taught, bringing it more in line with these principles.

The current sequence is merely an entrenched historical accident that strips much of the fun out of what she describes as the “playful universe” of mathematics, with its more than 60 top-level disciplines, and its manifestations in everything from weaving to building, nature, music and art. Worse, the standard curriculum starts with arithmetic, which Droujkova says is much harder for young children than playful activities based on supposedly more advanced fields of mathematics.

So my actual TEXTBOOK admitted that it was biased and teaching these disorders based on opinion and not up to date research. And, as described above, the section on ODD was basically just, “these are bad kids. We will not look into why or how or what comorbidities exist and we will also not be exploring the possibility of ODD really being a manifestation of trauma/undiagnosed adhd/autism/pathological demand avoidance/persistent drive for autonomy. We will however be mostly focusing on how annoying these kids are to their parents and teachers ✨️”

It’s fucking crazy. “Yeah we know lots of people with autism struggle to follow demands. They may either ignore/not register demands or have meltdowns when demands are placed. They may engage in physical aggression, verbal aggression, and property desctruction when directed to complete tasks or be exposed to uncomfortable sensory input. They may need to know the why behind demands and consequently argue with authority figures. They may be easily upset by sensory input or social interactions and have emotional outbursts when pushed beyond their limits. Some children with autism seek attention and may engage in maladaptive behaviors to elicit the attention of peers and caregivers if positive attention is not given freely/if they are ignored when behaving appropriately. All of these are symptoms of their underlying neurological differences and should be met with compassion and understanding. They are not bad children. Their brains process information differently and therefore they have executive functioning, sensory processing, and emotional regulation challenges that cause these behaviors.

How would you even measure that?

Things adults wrongly identify as arguing:

Asking for clarification

Asking any kind of question

defending yourself

answering a question teh adult has just asked you

breathing

Existing

Oh, also:

Race and the Mental Representation of Individuals Diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Implications for Diagnosis

Pathologizes problems with authority to dismiss them as irrational.

1: they don't have potatoes; the references to potatoes in the Shire were added by Tolkien-the-translator as part of a wider localisation. when Sam mentions potatoes he's actually talking about some other vegetable

2: given that Middle Earth was historically ruled over by the Numenoreans who come from a lost kingdom on the other side of the western ocean, it could be that Numenor was in or had contact with ancient America and brought potatoes back with them

2 is kind of a stretch tho interesting to contemplate; 1 however on some level i think is the correct answer. the Shire's resemblance to England is 100% canonically a localisation thing. The Shire is England bcos it's the main characters' home and the intended audience of the book was English people.

I'm a proud black trans boy!!! ♥️🖤⚜️🖤♥️

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

eridian names (in his culture at least) also don't have "meanings", since their sounds are formed differently from the sounds typically used for language and communication, which means the concept of human name etymology is fascinating to him. rocky might be more invested in grace picking a girl name than grace is. rocky might need to step away from the babynames.com archive page.

anyway in the end Grace is like Fine. let's just look up the etymology for the name Mary and translate it with that, happy? so they pull up babynames.com one last time and they look it up and they both go silent.

content labels

IF the mature content label says "potentially" then it was applied automatically, and every reblog will also have it applied automatically.

If it DOES NOT say "potentially" then then poster labeled it herself and it will not do that

If it DOES NOT say "potentially" and ALSO does not have the "hide" button next to it then it is the special tamamoland exclusive mature content flagging they gave me that put that on all of my posts no matter what separately from the actual content labels

blogs can also be flagged as mature which is a separate thing from content labels AND a separate thing from the special tamamoland mature flagging

you cannot manually add content labels to a post if you did not add content to the post

sexually explict content

NOT the same thing as mature content

tumblr's definition of sexually explicit content is specifically visual depictions of sex acts, genitals, and fluids like cum

this does not include non-visual depictions of anything, nor does it include nudity

importantly, none of that actually matters because who and to what it applies to is entirely arbitrary as you have seen

posts that are flagged as sexually explicit are fully hidden

they can arbitrarily terminate your account for explicit content which is itself arbitrarily applied to posts regardless of content and also does not actually require you to have any posts that are flagged as explicit and also appealing a post that is flagged as explicit can itself get your account terminated

individual reblogs of a post can be flagged as sexually explicit regardless of whether any content was added to the post, which tumblr likes to do to me

terminations

you are supposed to have a chance to correct or explain infractions before being terminated. this will never happen

if the blog name has -deactivated after it then it was done manually by the user. it may not have this if the url was at the character limit

if the blog name does NOT have deactivated then the account was terminated

if the user was TMA there is a good chance that instead of the account being terminated, she will get an extra special type of termination colloquially known as a nuke

posts can also be nuked, which removes all the media from them and deletes the post and all reblogs of it, all of which can be done individually as well. they have the ability to do this to posts instead of nuking accounts. keep that in mind. they can also do each part of the nuke independently, e.g. just hitting certain images on the post, or just deleted all reblogs

an account being nuked has all of its posts nuked. all of its posts are deleted. all reblogs of those posts are deleted. the pfp and header and such are all deleted. all media on any post it made and any reblogs of those posts is deleted. your presence is fully scrubbed from the site

any sort of termination removes all of your replies and prevents further replies on your posts

nuking does not hit posts that are in other people's drafts or queue, which is why you will still occasionally see them. the media on them will be deleted regardless, however. the post button won't always work, you will have to post them from the editor or let the queue reach it automatically

they do not tell you what content was in violation unless a specific post got nuked which gets you a url. they only actually use that option if you are harassing a transfem, though

there are no bans. ban evading is not a thing because there are no bans to be evading

sometimes they don't even bother to send you a termination email

whenever you see nazis and suicide baiting and other shit like that going on for weeks or months, just remember: tumblr staff isn't so swamped with reports that they can't nuke a random transfem within 10 minutes of account creation

appeals

you can appeal your termination if you were terminated somehow for harassing a transfem

pretty much exclusively

they reinstated the fucking kiwi farmer

the zendesk ai treats pretty much every support ticket from a terminated account as an appeal request so good luck getting to talk to a person about it

other bullshit

you can also be what's known as "shadow banned" which quietly disables most of the site's social features, such as messages. and replies. and being able to access your inbox. and showing up in people's notes. there is no indication of this other than its effects

tumblr can through some automated means terminate the accounts of every TMA person specifically that is following a specific user with like 99% accuracy. they've done this twice that i know of