Chicken or the Egg...

As corny as it is, I was overwhelmingly compelled to share this excerpt from my next paper....the bad, but unavoidable humor lies in the footnotes and the very unintentional "foul" references.

The paper's contention that the current placement in the Texas math curriculum of logarithms should be reviewed and/or changed. The excerpt is as follows;

Figure 2.3 illustrates somethings very obvious besides the points already discussed so far. While “exponent” barely makes it into the upper half of the keyword categories, the terms of “logarithm,” “root,” and “table,” – the metaphoric eggs that precede the chicken[1] (from a historical perspective) – are given very little importance in the Texas secondary curriculum. Also, one can see that the term “technology” is assigned more importance than those same forgotten eggs. In addition, one can see that the “logarithm” egg isn’t even cracked[2] until Algebra 2.

[1] A reference to the chicken or the egg dilemma of causality. The philosophical quandary, actually considered by Aristotle, is commonly associated with the question "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" This question is related to how life began.

[2] While some sexual connotations have recently been given to this term, the metaphor here is that a baby chicken must crack his egg shell to transition to another sage of development.