Crazy Talk: Slavery-Themed Math Problems  A "clumsy attempt" to
combine math and history is putting it mildly.    As if math
homework itself weren't bad enough for elementary school kids,
the New York Post reports that a class at Manhattan's P.S. 59
recently got it with a side of disturbing imagery about the
trafficking of human beings. Questions reportedly included, "One
slave got whipped five times a day. How many times did he get
whipped in a month (31 days)?" and "In a slave ship, there can
be 3,799 slaves. One day, the slaves took over the ship. 1,897
are dead. How many slaves are alive?"  Who thought this was a
bright idea? The Department of Education told the Post that it
was a "clumsy attempt" by the teacher who created the assignment
to combine history and math. If that's "clumsy," we'd hate to
see "disastrous."  Read more at the New York Post.  Like The
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