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Conservapedia:The Supreme Court

2007-10-08T00:48:54Z

StevenW:

"The Supreme Court" is a one-semester course for those curious about how the Court became so [[liberal]] in the 1960s through 1980s, and for those interested in learning how the Court can get back on the right path for the future.

This course will harness the power of Conservapedia to build an online constitutional law treatise for the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] of the future. Currently the leading constitutional law treatise cites about 3000 decisions, many of which are quickly becoming outdated and overruled by the [[Roberts Court]]. The author of that constitutional law treatise, Laurence Tribe, has announced that he will not be publishing an updated edition in the near future. This course and Conservapedia course will fill that void for the online future.

Categories essential to this course include:
 [[:Category:United States Supreme Court]]
 [[:Category:United States Supreme Court Cases]]
 [[:Conservapedia:Supreme Court Project]]

Lectures are [[The Supreme Court Lectures|here]].

Questions addressed in this course include:

*in how many years does the Supreme Court make or remake 50% (weighted by significance) of its case law? Expressed in scientific terms, what is the "half-life" of the Supreme Court?

*what precedents are there now 5 [[conservative]] votes for overruling? Are there 5 votes to overrule ''[[Roe v. Wade]]''?

*which precedents are at risk of being overruled in the upcoming 2007-2008 Term?

*what are the most interesting cases likely to be appealed to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]? Should amicus briefs be filed for any upcoming petitions?

*will the Supreme Court [[grant cert.]] in the [[gun control]] case, and how will it rule?

*What are the judicial philosophies of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] Justices?

*What are the worst [[liberal]] decisions rendered by the Court?

This fascinating course will examine critically the worst decisions of the past half-century and consider judicial and legislative corrections to them.

This cutting-edge course will emphasize decisions rendered as recently as this summer and will review cases on the Court's docket for the fall. This course will draw upon the expertise of leading attorneys and activists, including at least one teacher who practices before the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]. Utilizing the full power of Conservapedia, this course will incorporate important news about the Court as it occurs and anticipate issues that will dominate political discourse in the upcoming election season.

By the end of the course students will be far more knowledgeable about the most important government institution in the world: the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]

== Enroll here: ==

This free course starts in September. By enrolling here, you will be able to participate in a restricted namespace to be created only for students and teachers in this class. Both students and teachers should add your id. below to be sure of having a spot in this course:

--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 15:49, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

--[[User:Jsusman|Jsusman]] 21:50, 18 August 2007 (EDT) Sure! Let's go! :)

: Welcome! Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:04, 18 August 2007 (EDT)

-[[User:ShanaTova|ShanaTova]] 18:51, 22 August 2007 (EDT) please?

-[[User:Todd16]] 9:29 PM August 23rd 2007 - I would like to join this class too. I have never edited wikipedia so I'm trying to leatrn this format. Will this be a like a corespondance course, or will we have online meeting times? Thanks! Todd

: Welcome to both ShanaTova and Todd16!!! We'll be online but not at fixed times.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 23:28, 22 August 2007 (EDT)

-[[User:Legis01|Legis01]] 17:07, 26 August 2007 (EDT)

: Welcome and Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 17:37, 26 August 2007 (EDT)

-- I would also be interested in being a student for the course. Thank you. [[User:StevenW|StevenW]] 20:48, 7 October 2007 (EDT)

Conservapedia:Critical Thinking in Math

2007-10-08T00:46:56Z

StevenW:

"Critical Thinking in Math" is an experimental course with four independent purposes in mind:

*sharpen the analytical skills of students and improve their math [[College Board]] scores

*awaken an interest in [[mathematics]] by students who did not realize they had extraordinary aptitude for math, the future [[Bernhard Riemann]]s

*encourage adults to keep their mind sharp through mathematics, and fend off mental decline

*help parents who would like to teach math to their [[homeschooled]] children

The experiment is to use only fundamental or elementary techniques to accomplish the above results. No tools beyond about 9th grade math is required, and motivated students younger than 9th grade will not have difficulty with the concepts.

This course seeks the contributions of both teachers and students to make it is effective as possible. It will be begin in September. Possible topics include:

*a comparative look at different techniques of proof

*major problems that remain unsolved using elementary techniques

*a look at the history of the development of math

*an analysis of what skills [[College Board]] exams test, and how to improve those skills

Please feel free to add other topics and suggestions, and add your name below as a teacher or student interested in this field:
--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 16:08, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

== Draft Curriculum ==

*different methods of proof: [[constructive proof]], [[elementary proof]], induction, contradiction, existence, [[infinite descent]]
*defining and redefining key concepts: [[integer]]s, [[infinity]], [[prime number]]s, [[proof]]
*controversy about proof by contradiction
*17 different ways to prove that there are an infinite number of [[prime number]]s
*[[transcendental]] numbers - how do we know they exist?
*Goldbach's Conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem
*Unsolved problems: proving that there are infinitely many [[twin primes]]
*[[Brun's constant]]
*Problems solved only with proof-by-contradiction: always a prime between n and 2n (n>1)
*[[perfect number]]s
*[[additive factoring]]
*[[prime number theorem]]
*Types of math problems presented in [[College Board]] exams, [[math contests|American math contests]] and UK math contests [http://www.wpr3.co.uk/UKMT/jmc.html][http://www.wpr3.co.uk/UKMT/imc.html][http://www.wpr3.co.uk/UKMT/smc.html]
*Interesting problems in number theory and Euclidean geometry
*greatest mathematicians in history, and why
*Axiom of Choice, why it has been controversial, and its use in Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
*Set theory in general
*Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems are interesting; they are applicable not only in maths and logic, but also move into philosophy.
*Hilbert's program (although of course the above renders null its aims!)
*Formal mathematical logic
Students on the course
*I would like to join this. Is it alright if I live in the UK? Your profile suggests that you live in the US, but I am always eager for maths. [[User:AungSein|AungSein]] 18:13, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

:: That's fantastic. Of course you're welcome in the UK. You have great colleges there, and produced some fantastic physicists. Please help build a curriculum (see above). Lord willing, maybe we can make some inroads into some unsolved problems.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:29, 5 August 2007 (EDT)
[[category:mathematics]]
::: Well I come from Burma, but the colleges and university there are good. Your point about unsolved problems is good, too - have you heard of the folding@home project? It is a different concept, I know, but perhaps relevant - maybe what one brilliant mathematician might struggle at, us many lesser minds might gain insight into! I would also recommend for point 3 the UKMT papers [http://www.wpr3.co.uk/UKMT/jmc.html][http://www.wpr3.co.uk/UKMT/imc.html][http://www.wpr3.co.uk/UKMT/smc.html] - I do not know about how it is in the USA, but they are typical here. [[User:AungSein|AungSein]] 20:06, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

:::: Your additions to the above curriculum are superb! Thanks much, and thanks also for the links to those U.K. tests. I just printed one out am reviewing it. Questions look challenging but doable, which is what we want. Lord knows that students can really improve after practicing on lots of those types of tests. We also have high school contests in the U.S. here: [[Math contests]].--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 20:37, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

::: AungSein, a second student in this class took the UKMT Junior contest you cited, and she marked 17 correct, 5 wrong, and 3 non-answered. How did you do on that test?--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 21:54, 6 August 2007 (EDT)
*I'm interested in this math critical thinking class too. --[[User:Luke314|Luke314]] 16:38, 9 August 2007 (EDT)

:: Fantastic! Welcome and Godspeed. Please click "Watch" on this page so that you can easily see updates as September approaches. This will be a great learning experience. Feel free to make suggestions on the curriculum.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 16:42, 9 August 2007 (EDT)

*I'm interested also, as a teacher. (Credentials on request, of course.) Is this class going to happen? What I see here doesn't look very well-subscribed. Is there another page somewhere, listing details of the class? Details of the Curriculum? Discussion of same? Teaching the axiom of choice or Gödel's incompleteness theorems really correctly sounds like quite an ambitious undertaking, but I'd like to give it a try. [[User:Robert|Robert]] 20:42, 23 August 2007 (EDT)

:: That's great, Robert! We don't have a lot of students yet but it is still only August. We plan to start mid-September and I welcome your input on the curriculum. I expect the interest in this to grow as it has in the American Government course (now up to 45 participants). Much will be accomplished by this math course for the immense benefit of the participants. Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 23:08, 23 August 2007 (EDT)

I am also interested in participating in the project as an adult student. [[User:StevenW|StevenW]] 20:46, 7 October 2007 (EDT)

Conservapedia:Critical Thinking in Math

2007-10-08T00:46:11Z

StevenW: