Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 19, 2020

The guy doesn’t know square root of 144 but he’s in college?

No, just another galaxy.

“Dissin’ me.” Is that a still used phrased?

The comic is from 1993.

If the calculators in “Hidden Figures” are correct, his advanced civilization would not have made it to the moon.

Future telephone sanitiser?

Your culture doesn’t count. Literally.

Maybe they don’t use base 10. But I can’t be bothered to check how they count. Just check how many fingers he has…..

He should stand on the railroad tracks until he gets his way.

This ’toon could have been written yesterday. Google: How many times has trump said unfair or unfairly.

Maybe an athletic scholarship? I know of “student athletes” who were pretty much illiterate.

affirmative action at its best

Soooo, no child left behind works?

Art is imitating life here, unfortunately. There have been lawsuits filed over the cultural insensitivity of word problems in math classes. Or so I’ve read.

Plus or minus 12, actually.

So …. they are teaching grade 3 math in university now?

Reagan National University,No teachers,no students,but backed by the tRump administration.Betsy DeVos is doing a wonderful job ;(

He should have said “42”. 42 is always the right answer… ☺

That’s gross.

He needs to demonstrate his method to the professor, because with math we need to show the work.

Doesn’t the prof know that the concept of ‘advanced’ is a racist, homophobic, phallocentric concept?

Future sports commentator. It is a job with no consequences that could be handled by an entertaining beer loaded orangutan. Sports bookies have to understand numbers.

That 12 is the square root of 144 is an “alternative fact.”

This is indeed representative of today’s Right Wing culture of facts.

Good thing for the prof it’s not a philosophy of mathematics class.

Two words. Alternative facts. And to think this strip was drawn in 1993.

Nice burn, Teach! :-D

OMG!! We’re we all so perfect as teenagers?! Jeez! I used to complain about how much better and dedicated my Chinese students were than my American students. I recently found out how many of my American students are working second shift in order to pay their tuition and books. I don’t talk about the Chinese students so much any more. ‘Cause you know the Chinese teens aren’t out there at Sheetz until 10 o’clock for minimum wage just so they can stay in school.

In Seattle their policy compels instructors to teach that “math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color”.

Sounds a lot like the Mr. Show sketch where this mafia-like boss insists 24 is the highest number:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkP_OGDCLY0