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Publication Date: 2024-Mar
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The Dishwasher System: Dealing with Defamation
Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, v24 n1 p107-123 2024
As a person obsessed, perhaps overly so, with preventing water damage, an ailing dishwasher led to a system whereby who did the dishes in our household became a matter of chance. What happened next, however, was besmirchment of my character from hockey teammates, close friends, and especially from a room full of future elementary school mathematics teachers. Most individuals, from those casting aspersions, were not even able to support their slander by, for example, providing me with a simple solution, the kind you would find in the back of a school mathematics textbook, demonstrating that the dishwasher system I had implemented was unfair. Making matters worse, data collected from a simulation of my system did not result in probabilistic discussions regarding order mattering, the number of outcomes, the assignment of labels, lists or diagrams; rather, a flimsily understanding of the data resulted in a rather raucous echo chamber where my fate was sealed. Unable to sit idly by any longer, I proposed a tweak to the system, which preyed on a school yard notion of fairness, that helped me regain my honour and perhaps proved that revenge is a dish best served cold.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Ethics, Housework, Water, Simulation, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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