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Prof: Algebra, geometry perpetuate white privilege
Campus Reform ^ | October 23, 2017 | Toni Airaksinen

Posted on 10/23/2017 6:06:15 AM PDT by C19fan

A math education professor at the University of Illinois argued in a newly published book that algebraic and geometry skills perpetuate “unearned privilege” among whites.

Rochelle Gutierrez, a professor at the University of Illinois, made the claim in a new anthology for math teachers, arguing that teachers must be aware of the “politics that mathematics brings” in society.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: academicbias; college; education; illinois; math; mathematics; mathteachers; professor; racism; rochellegutierrez; teachers; university
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To: Architect of Avalon

Minority status is subjective to local.


41 posted on 10/23/2017 6:33:02 AM PDT by Frapster (Bacon!)
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To: ptsal

“No more Excel, Bill Gates is White.”

Ever hear of “visacalc” It came out on CPM long before Microsoft. Exccel was copied from that program...


42 posted on 10/23/2017 6:34:34 AM PDT by babygene (hMake America Great Again)
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To: Bayan

The day is young.......................


43 posted on 10/23/2017 6:34:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: C19fan

So, NON-Whites should avoid taking any math courses at all.

NO ENGINEERING DEGREES!.............................


44 posted on 10/23/2017 6:35:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: C19fan

This is totally idiotic. What publisher agreed to print this?

IIRC, some minorities are criticized for “acting too white” when they try to get ahead in school. That is a problem, and a very sad one.


45 posted on 10/23/2017 6:37:08 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ( I appear to have accidentally deleted my tagline. :()
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To: C19fan

Algebra was my favorite class. I was white privileged enough to have to take it four times.

I never understood it and finally cranked out a C.

Funny thing is that my kid, who’s going to graduate next year as an aerospace engineer never did well with algebra either. Calculus, trigonometry, differential equations etc, no problem.


46 posted on 10/23/2017 6:39:35 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: C19fan

From her page at the U of I:

“...Her current research projects focus upon: developing in pre-service teachers the knowledge and disposition to teach powerful mathematics to urban students; the roles of uncertainty, tensions, and “Nepantla” in teaching; and the political knowledge (and forms of creative insubordination) that mathematics teachers need to effectively teach in an era of high-stakes education.”


47 posted on 10/23/2017 6:41:04 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: SubMareener

In that case it would be cultural appropriation. Just as bad.


48 posted on 10/23/2017 6:42:10 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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Crazy. Knowledge,including algebra and geometry, is the great equalizer.


49 posted on 10/23/2017 6:43:05 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: C19fan

What does it matter? they are going to get passing grades anyway! They’ll get jobs in those fields without qualifications, and will never be fired. At this point what difference does it make?


50 posted on 10/23/2017 6:44:01 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: C19fan

Politicize everything.


51 posted on 10/23/2017 6:45:28 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
I don’t know squat about math, but I self-identify as a mathematical genius, so I’m good to go.

LOL! And I self-identify as a high fashion runway model, so I am waiting for my paycheck. ;)

52 posted on 10/23/2017 6:45:29 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ( I appear to have accidentally deleted my tagline. :()
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To: InterceptPoint
Image result for pythagorean theorem

Image result for pythagorean theorem hypotenuse

Note that sides a and b are reversed in the example I posted earlier, but it of course makes no difference. Hypotenuse x=c

Image result for find x mathematics

53 posted on 10/23/2017 6:48:08 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: proud American in Canada
LOL! And I self-identify as a high fashion runway model, so I am waiting for my paycheck. ;)

I work in IT, and a few months ago a co-worker told me he needed a male SVGA connector. I fumbled around and handed him the first thing I found.

"That's a female," he said.

"I know," was my reply. "But it identifies as a male, so it ought to work."

54 posted on 10/23/2017 6:49:42 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: C19fan

Yes, keep on preaching to blacks that gaining knowledge and acquiring academic skills is “acting white.” Then as blacks remain mired in the underclass as they watch young Korean, Vietnamese, Cuban, Gujarati and Nigerian immigrants soar past them, succeeding in school and then in life, you can blame white racism.


55 posted on 10/23/2017 6:50:03 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

LOL, that’s brilliant.


56 posted on 10/23/2017 6:50:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ETL

LOL!!!


57 posted on 10/23/2017 6:51:13 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: SubMareener

Exactly. When I was younger, the Greeks were supposed to have stolen geometry from “black” Egypt. Can’t they keep the story straight?


58 posted on 10/23/2017 6:52:29 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: blam

I didn’t know it either. When I was young “Professor” was a title of honor. When I got my PhD and already had my Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine, I was honored to be called Professor...most people do not know the academic degree of PhD is “higher” than “doctor of medicine” and “doctor of medicine” is equivalent of a BS. No matter what, far better “Professor” than “Mrs” in the professional setting as “Mrs” cooks the turkey and “educated” people speak really slowly to her to make sure she understands. Yes, indeed.


59 posted on 10/23/2017 6:52:36 AM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: C19fan

Halloween cancelled by some schools because it’s not inclusive, can be offensive.

In this justification, all schools, all institutions should simply be closed, because all students cannot take all classes and this is unfair.

Who is responsible for allowing these 10’s of thousands of so-called educators to brainwash America?
WTF happened to this country?


60 posted on 10/23/2017 6:53:56 AM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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