cw: gun/military violence
I was tutoring this weekend when this problem came up in the competition test we were working through. I was so jarred by the first sentence, I couldn’t finish reading the problem. I apologized to my tutee and asked if we could move on to the next one instead.
I still haven’t taken the time to read it and try to solve it.
I know I haven’t posted since I first started this blog, but I’m still thinking about this problem several days later. I hope to come back to write my problems with it. I need to document it here for now so I don’t forget.
I invite all who can brave reading the problem to attempt a rewrite, to change the context but keep any worthwhile underlying mathematics. What affirming, imaginative futures can you conjure up?
I cannot find it in me to do that right now.
Dismantling Mathematics 