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Math Was Never Really My Thing

February 19, 2020Original blog post

Pulled over for speeding and asked whether they know how fast they were going, a driver pleads innumeracy: math was never really their thing.

Transcript

Police officer: "Do you have any idea how fast you were going?" Driver: "You know, math was never really my thing."

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2020-02-19-math-was-never-really-my-thing/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Number & Arithmetic › Rates › SpeedMath Culture › Math Anxiety & Attitudes
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