Harvard: $57k a year university adding introductory math classes to curriculum.

[jbycho 754]

Because liberal woke high schools don't teach it anymore. 

Harvard University is introducing a new introductory math course, Math MA5, to address gaps in foundational algebra skills among its students, according to The Harvard Crimson

 

Harvard has a 3% acceptance rate. 

Can you say diversity challenged?  

 

 

[jbycho 754]

Liberals do absolutely everything wrong in life.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,303]

30 minutes ago, jbycho said:

Because liberal woke high schools don't teach it anymore. 

Harvard University is introducing a new introductory math course, Math MA5, to address gaps in foundational algebra skills among its students, according to The Harvard Crimson

Harvard has a 3% acceptance rate. 

Can you say diversity challenged?  

Brought you you by liberals everywhere.  Keep'em stupid is the Democrat motto.  That makes them more easily led and easier to indoctrinate with the propaganda and dogma they spew.

[jbycho 754]

Why does Harvard need to address introductory math skills to new students if they only accept 3% of applicants? What is their 3% criteria? 

[weepaws 3,275]

7 hours ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Brought you you by liberals everywhere.  Keep'em stupid is the Democrat motto.  That makes them more easily led and easier to indoctrinate with the propaganda and dogma they spew.

Do you mean, brought to you? Oh my soul, another stupid conservative/liberal Indeed.   HTH. 

[jonmx 2,433]

15 hours ago, jbycho said:

Why does Harvard need to address introductory math skills to new students if they only accept 3% of applicants? What is their 3% criteria? 

Because the 3 percent is not the top 3 percent.  And they stopped requiring standardized tests.  

[Cdub100 3,995]

We ALL know who this class is for. 

[HB Localboy 122]

How can you get into Harvard if you still have to use your fingers to count (2+2)?

 

Oh yeah....DEI and affirmative action.

 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,880]

Harvard has hired a drag queen named LaWhore Vagistan as a visiting professor.  

[Tree of Knowledge 2,063]

56 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Harvard has hired a drag queen named LaWhore Vagistan as a visiting professor.  

I’m sure it is a Physics Professor?

[Hardcore troubadour 15,880]

41 minutes ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

I’m sure it is a Physics Professor?

Our tax dollars at work. 

[Gepetto 1,429]

LOL, Harvard students can’t do math. I got A+ in all my Calculus classes. 

[frank 2,331]

This doesn’t add up.

[supermike80 2,053]

56 minutes ago, Gepetto said:

LOL, Harvard students can’t do math. I got A+ in all my Calculus classes. 

In HS, calculus scared me.  I was ok at math, kinda got it.   Handled trig fine.  But heard calculus was all kinda new math and it scared me off 

[Maximum Overkill 2,324]

On 3/22/2025 at 6:54 PM, jbycho said:

Because liberal woke high schools don't teach it anymore. 

Harvard University is introducing a new introductory math course, Math MA5, to address gaps in foundational algebra skills among its students, according to The Harvard Crimson

 

Harvard has a 3% acceptance rate. 

Can you say diversity challenged?  

 

 

WTF??? Harvard hires drag queen named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as visiting professor

[Hardcore troubadour 15,880]

3 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

WTF??? Harvard hires drag queen named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as visiting professor

Our tax dollars at work. To think we have worker bee schleps like Gutterboy here that defend this. 

[nobody 2,832]

On 10/2/2025 at 6:24 PM, supermike80 said:

In HS, calculus scared me.  I was ok at math, kinda got it.   Handled trig fine.  But heard calculus was all kinda new math and it scared me off 

I hate to see stuff like this because it's pretty easy and not new math at all.  It's really just building on stuff you already know and making it generalized.  Teachers just do a terrible job teaching it.

Like the big scary derivative?  What if I told you it was just building on the concept of the slope of a line... The old rise over run.  That's all it is.  They just make it sound hard with a bunch of goofy language.

Big scary integral?  Can you compute the area of rectangles and add them together?  Guess what?  That's all an integral is.

All calculus does is introduce the concept of increasingly smaller and smaller changes in things until they are infinitely small and how to use that to do some interesting stuff.