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Re:What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits... by threatofrain on Sunday March 20, 2016 @09:35PM (#11325658)
You're being quite uncharitable to me by accusing me of foul or insincere behavior, though I've suggested nothing of that from you, and have responded robustly to your points. At the very least you could assume that we've failed to understand each other, but you instead assume a "willful" dishonesty.

I discussed self-efficacy. I discussed discretionary awards for creativity. I also discussed the problem from the young girl and her father's frame of discussion -- the frame of typography. You've not reciprocated with robust response. The pedantry is a point I'm making -- it's pedantry conforming to the pedantic frame they brought up. Tetration is no more the right answer than exponentiation. 999 is the right answer. The Common Core is good here.

If you're talking about how the school can skillfully avoid lawyers, then yes, that's the one point I've missed. The school can have all sorts of strategies to skillfully avoid lawyers. If that's the case, for anything which might summon a lawyer, do a cost-benefit analysis and form a school risk-averse policy. Is that the point you wanted to make?

If anyone brings a lawyer in to school, admit fault right away, and then go on teaching the same way, because 99.99% of children are going through the lesson just fine. Blogpost and HN moment successfully averted.

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Re:What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits... by jacquesm on Sunday March 20, 2016 @09:40PM (#11325669)
That was the only point I was making.

Whether tetration or exponentiation are the better answer, whether or not the dad should have stood by his daughter or not, none of that matters because it should have never even left the classroom in the first place, and they had multiple good reasons for doing that and none to dig in the way they did.

Once it did leave the classroom all bets were off.

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