What Schools Forget
Dan MurphyExposing how we traded educational freedom for institutional control, one forgotten historical truth at a time.
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Prime Factors: The DNA of Numbers
There are 100 lightbulbs in a row, all off. You walk past and flip every switch. Then you walk back and flip every second switch. Then every third. Every fourth. Keep going until you've made 100 passes. Which bulbs are on?
Being able to un...
Fibonacci's Forgotten Division Algorithm
Every other algorithm we teach children lines up the same way:
Numbers stacked. Operation symbol on the left.
Addition does it. Subtraction does it. Multiplication does it.
Then we get to division, and suddenly there's a half-box shap...
How It All Started
Over 1,000 people now read What Schools Forget.
I didn’t see that coming.
Here’s how it started.
Several years ago, the faculty at my school were reading and discussing Plato’s Republic. In Book VII, Socrates gives the famous “Allegory...
"Long" Division
What is 2,756 ÷ 13?
I was stumped. I was proctoring a study hall in my first year of teaching, and a student came to me for help with this question.
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The Bridge of Donkeys
“Isn’t it obvious? A triangle with equal sides must have equal angles!”
The art teacher at my school said this while substituting for my geometry class when we were doing proposition 5 of Book I. In retrospect, this was a bad idea. This pr...
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