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The post Outer, Inner of July 16, 2016, contained the following
illustration of a quote from "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" —

An image from yesterday morning pictured a link to the
Feb. 10, 2014, post Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside.

That post, shown below, offers a deeper interpretation of the
Stevens quote "an interior made exterior."

(Click image below to use the post's links.)

This post was suggested by Greg Gutfeld’s Sept. 4 remarks on Common Core math.

Problem: What is 9 + 6 ?

Here are two approaches suggested by illustrations of Desargues’s theorem.

Solution 1:

9 + 6 = 10 + 5,
as in Common Core (or, more simply, as in common sense), and
10 + 5 = 5 + 10 = 15 as in Veblen and Young:

Solution 2:

In the figure below,
9 + 6 = no. of  V’s + no. of  A’s + no. of C’s =
no. of nonempty squares = 16 – 1 = 15.
(Illustration from Feb. 10, 2014.)

The silly educationists’ “partner, anchor, decompose” jargon
discussed by Gutfeld was their attempt to explain “9 + 6 = 10 + 5.”

As he said of the jargon, “That’s not math, that’s the plot from ‘Silence of the Lambs.'”

Or from Richard, Frank, and Marcus in last night’s “Intruders”
(BBC America, 10 PM).

(Continued from yesterday’s noon post, from  “Block That Metaphor,”
and from “Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside“)

“In one corner are the advocates of the Common Core,
led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which
helped develop the standards and has defended them
against efforts by some states to roll them back. In the
challengers’ corner, a lineup of foundations and
philanthropists…. Other funders in the opponents’ corner
read like a ‘who’s who’ of well-heeled conservative
philanthropists, including Pittsburgh media magnate
Richard Mellon Scaife….”

— “Meet the Funders Fighting the Common Core,”
from Inside Philanthropy , Feb. 10, 2014

Scaife reportedly died this morning.