Arizona State Senator Opposed To Algebra

Arizona is already in the news for it’s pro-discrimination legislation.  Now, State Senator Al Melvin offers this gem explaining his opposition to national education standards (also known as the Common Core):

…he said the program uses “fuzzy math,” substituting letters for numbers in some examples.

Hemant Mehta says it better than I could:

… so Melvin’s problem with Common Core is that it expects students to know algebra.

Maybe he got confused. He probably opposes Al-Qaeda and thinks Al Jazeera is evil and figures algebra is another Islamic conspiracy.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.