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- theshizzler, on 11/17/2007, -4/+580109,293 errors! That's almost a million!
- MiltonWaddams, on 11/17/2007, -3/+476109,293 errors in 164 textbooks. Thats 666 errors per book. Discuss.
- hyperlexic, on 11/17/2007, -3/+449Is our children learning?
- Drexus, on 11/17/2007, -3/+428"Many of the errors, spread out over 164 textbooks and online materials, are blamed on faulty translation from English to Spanish"
The last time I looked, numbers looked the same in Spanish. - Lane, on 11/17/2007, -6/+204To be perfectly fair these are not final copies, but review copies. Yes it is astounding that anyone who is translating a text book can miss something so obvious as 7+4=10 but that's what proof readers are for.
- Smight, on 11/17/2007, -2/+146Don't you know? Any number multiplied by 109263 equals 0. It's right there on page Z%3.
- richardginn, on 11/17/2007, -4/+130You beat me to posting this news.
They still have a few months to fix all of these errors or get a 5 grand fine per error. - evi1, on 11/17/2007, -4/+127You mean it is 666.23780487804878048780487804878, it is some what of a stretch to see any coincidences there.
- skews13, on 11/17/2007, -2/+120can you imagine the errors in the history books?
- Napoleone, on 11/17/2007, -1/+112We must put food on their families to make sure.
- nirav72, on 11/17/2007, -2/+101thats fuzzy math.
- TylerL82, on 11/17/2007, -1/+86...are you sure? The Texas school board calculates 645 errors with those numbers.
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -35/+116well, that explains bush.
- Gimpishi, on 11/17/2007, -3/+75Clearly the ice melted before the steel spoon! Proving the Titanic could not have been sunk by an ice-burg!
- sinisterdesign, on 11/17/2007, -5/+76$5,000 * 109,263 = $245
(texas math) - ohsin, on 11/17/2007, -0/+69http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EoRgpmyrA8
- Hayaemsay, on 11/17/2007, -0/+56So wings may take dream.
- brainster31, on 11/17/2007, -2/+58no they isn't
- Bamborzled, on 11/17/2007, -1/+56You completely misunderestimate them.
- manixrock, on 11/17/2007, -0/+55Well while we're playing the number game....
109,293 / 164 = 666 remaining 69
so it's a perverted conspiracy involving numerology, sex and satan. psh... - chingy1788, on 11/17/2007, -4/+53They don't believe in Pi, and the decimal point as well as the decimal system
- zachshmack, on 11/17/2007, -4/+52Since I know there are going to be a few dozen people coming here just to take a few cheap shots at Texas without RTFA:
"The Boston-based publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Co. is responsible for 79 percent of the errors found in both student and teacher materials."
BOSTON is not in TEXAS. It is in MASSACHUSETTS.
The headline only has Texas in it because that's where the effing article was written. - JorgeGT, on 11/17/2007, -1/+45Well, we in Spanish use "," (comma) as the decimal symbol and "." (dot) as thousands symbol meaning that
1.234 = 1234/1000 in English but 1234 in Spanish.
1,234 = 1234 in English but 1234/1000 in Spanish.
Other differences... mmm... sin(alpha) = sen(alfa) and other things that involve words.
(Facts that are extremely annoying while writing in spanish but using english computer programs, for instance LaTeX won't recognize sen so you have to write text{ sen } each time, etc...) - carpespasm, on 11/17/2007, -2/+45he wasn't raised in TX. He just likes to think he is a cowboy.
- GMorgan, on 11/17/2007, -6/+45I don't know why they bother. My maths book (covering all of mathematics) is one page with a giant 42 written in the middle. Seems to work fine for me.
- BodomX, on 11/17/2007, -1/+38 AT Leazt r engl1sh bewks are ok,
- SilverStandard, on 11/17/2007, -4/+41$5,000 * 109,263 = $546,315,000
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -4/+41So the answer to everything is Satan? Dude that ***** rocks!
- demonsnake69, on 11/17/2007, -1/+38Actually the answer is 666.42....
- Bamborzled, on 11/17/2007, -3/+38Don't blame him. He was taught with this Texas math book.
- techmaster, on 11/17/2007, -1/+36Yeah, but what's the question?
- Barkingshins, on 11/17/2007, -1/+36At first I laughed at what I interpreted to be sarcasm on your part, but then I realized that you might actually NOT be joking.
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -2/+35"The math books are expected to be error-free by the time classes begin. For every error that is not caught, the State Board of Education fines publishers $5,000, the newspaper said."
sooo... this is really just some errors tht were caught in editing... what's the story? - dazparkour, on 11/17/2007, -0/+33I'm going to digg you up so your confession will be remembered by a lot of people.
- ninedesign, on 11/17/2007, -1/+33Please STFU with that already.
- dazparkour, on 11/17/2007, -12/+43 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 - And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
//Imagine - inactive, on 11/17/2007, -2/+33Oh god, I laughed out loud. Thanks dude :)
- Konstantino, on 11/17/2007, -13/+44This explains Bush's brain power...
- diggface5000, on 11/17/2007, -2/+32This may be a bit of a stretch but................... maybe it was being dictated?
- spawnfree, on 11/17/2007, -4/+33Woah.That implies he has read a book.
- chsbrgr, on 11/17/2007, -0/+29We ought to make the pie higher.
- wagnerelli, on 11/17/2007, -5/+34Wow, you guys are really stereotyping. Yes, not everyone in Texas is intelligent, but many of us are intelligent, just like every other state.
We also personally apologize for George Bush. - inactive, on 11/17/2007, -0/+29Anyone who has taken a lot of college-level mathematics classes knows the frustration of trying to match an answer in the book only to find the book got it wrong. I think it happens because textbook publishers feel the need to come out with edition after edition where all they do is alter the questions/answers a little (to force people to buy a new book). Then again my estimate of the error rate is less than 1%.
- luchid, on 11/17/2007, -6/+33The Texas version includes "1:5 And God told George W. to bomb and invade Iraq."
- mepawl, on 11/17/2007, -1/+25Yes, because when translating: "Solve: 3+7=?" to "Solucione: 3+7=?" there is SUCH a big risk of confusing those big and scary numbers.
- thewfirestarter, on 11/17/2007, -4/+28So Spanish uses a different numbering system? Translation efforts should not create math errors.
- nospinhere, on 11/17/2007, -5/+28Yes, the dumbing down as evident by those who don't read the stories and just the catchy digg title. If you read the article you would know that these books aren't even published yet and errors were caught in proof reading, most of which is a result of bad translation from English to Spanish.
- Setter, on 11/17/2007, -9/+31From the article: "Many of the errors, spread out over 164 textbooks and online materials, are blamed on faulty translation from English to Spanish."
There's only one real error here: that we're translating our public school texts to SPANISH. - adith, on 11/17/2007, -6/+28"Math" is perfectly legitimate -- and preferred -- in American English.
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