{"id":241,"date":"2006-06-13T19:26:53","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T02:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2006-06-13T19:30:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T02:30:24","slug":"weapons-of-math-instruction-anders-jacobsens-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/06\/13\/weapons-of-math-instruction-anders-jacobsens-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons of Math Instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobsen.no\/anders\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/06\/weapons_of_math_instruction.html\">This<\/a> has been around for at least a couple of years but keeps returning to the email inbox so I thought I&#8217;d point out that although the authors of the joke seem to see &#8220;al-gebra&#8221; as just a funny coincidence,I&#8217;ve always thought that it could be used as a lead-in to a discussion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=googlet&#038;q=al%20jabr\"> origins of the subject<\/a> and as a timely reminder of the fact that there was once a time when the Islamic world was a refuge of tolerance and rationality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been around for at least a couple of years but keeps returning to the email inbox so I thought I&#8217;d point out that although the authors of the joke seem to see &#8220;al-gebra&#8221; as just a funny coincidence,I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/06\/13\/weapons-of-math-instruction-anders-jacobsens-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-islam","category-mathematics","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}