That garbage is a special case of a huge ocean of related grabage that has nothing at all to do with 'math' and, instead, is some brain-dead, K-12, social, cultural, economic, WTF nonsense. Follow the money: The unions of K-12 teachers want taxpayers to send more money for more nonsense. Sickening.
Uhh...you realize this is actually a joke show? This is not a serious documentary. You can certainly still object to it being on HN, I just thought you should realize this is not actually intended to teach maths.
It's a satire on the BBC's 1970s school programming output.
The writers know what they are doing; this parody of mathematics is exactly how real mathematics sounds like to a lay person. This is nonsense, sure: but so is the satirical poetry of Lewis Carroll and the poems of Edward Lear, and the most erudite experts in the English language derive much pleasure from reading such nonsense.
Indeed, the more sophisticated the mind, the greater the need for self-parodies such as this show.
Get that MESS OFF HN.
That garbage is a special case of a huge ocean of related grabage that has nothing at all to do with 'math' and, instead, is some brain-dead, K-12, social, cultural, economic, WTF nonsense. Follow the money: The unions of K-12 teachers want taxpayers to send more money for more nonsense. Sickening.