Equality: A Definition
Let’s have an honest conversation about equality. Honestly, I don’t think we are capable of equality until we change how we understand it. Okay this is what it looks like to me. Remember how we were taught about equality when we were children? In Math class? I’ll provide you with a refresher. 1. So we were taught than equal means that both sides of the equation are the same (hence the ‘=’ and from that flows all of algebra). 2. When we moved on to proportions and we were asked to divide x among a specified number of people, we would take x and divide it among that specified number of people and get our answer. Hope I’m not moving too fast for you. 3. Lastly, when we were told to make equal 75 and 25, knowing the value of x is 100, we knew that we had to take 25 from the 75 and give it to the 25 so that both become 50. It is this last model that we based our understand...