{"id":861,"date":"2023-06-06T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=861"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:39:31","slug":"math-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/06\/06\/math-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Equity (aka &#8211; A Weapon of Math Destruction)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is no fault of one <br>that it is so small;<br>one is less than four. <br>You know it is not fair <br>that numbers are not the same,<br>justice must be shared. <br>To make it fair to one, <br>each one receives a three. <br>To make it fairer still <br>every two will get a two, <br>but threes receive just one. <br>Now four plus four  <br>will equal four, <br>we should have thought <br>of this before. <br>For everyone is happy<br>and everybody wins;<br>now all we need is just a bit<br>of supernatural spin &#8230; to explain it all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:02192019<br>www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no fault of one that it is so small;one is less than four. You know it is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/06\/06\/math-equity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math Equity (aka &#8211; A Weapon of Math Destruction)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse-blank-verse-fractured-elizabethan","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}