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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by tester756 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:50PM (#31672220)
>Give a poor black kid a problem involving tennis scores, boom, problem. Odds of a poor black kid knowing how tennis scoring works, much less likely.

Over around 18 years of having various maths topics in schools

The only thing that required some "non-math" knowledge were cards related questions and maybe dice

but what is that tennis counting example? do they actually appear on IQ questions?

how about maths exams?

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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by com2kid on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:01PM (#31672356)
I've seen plenty of problems involving scoring in various sports. I've seen stats taught using baseball batting averages and tons of problems involving football scoring.

Oh and poker hands.

I can easily imagine an IQ test 50 years ago involving scoring in bridge games.

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