Posted on 02/12/2021 2:33:51 PM PST by grundle
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Original: https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf
Deconstructing Racism in Mathematics Instruction
White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions. Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics.The table below identifies the ways in which white supremacy shows up in math classrooms.
Dismantling white supremacy in math classrooms
We see white supremacy culture show up in the mathematics classroom even as we carry out our professional responsibilities outlined in the California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP). Using CSTPas a framework, we see white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom can show up when:
• The focus is on getting the “right” answer.
• Independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration.
• “Real-world math” is valued over math in the real world.
• Students are tracked (into courses/pathways and within the classroom).
• Participation structures reinforce dominant ways of being.
If the bad guys 200 years ago had really wanted to prevent slaves from learning to read and write, they would have forced them to attend public schools.
Would anyone like to unpack this one for me?
““Real-world math” is valued over math in the real world.”
When Asian students get the right answer is that “white supremacy” too? Guess others of color aren’t capable.
Load of leftist horseshit. STUDY, blacks latinos and others! Learn how to learn. Get with it. No more excuses for filing, you raciist-loving morons!
They’re white..Dems put them in the white category 30 years ago...They made blacks look even dumber ,if that is possible....
Yeah, math is white supremacy. It’s what keeps field like bridge building, aircraft design, ship design, power grid...etc full of whitey’s. It’s racism to say that math is necessary to do all those things and more.
No accounting for that one.
But humor aside, I think the outlandishly stupid wokeness of the Left is a direct consequence of numerable decades of race grievance pandering by those trying to make a living off of keeping people unhappier and angrier than they’d otherwise be.
To keep race grievance pimping up it cannot become stale, same old same old but like anything else will tend towards a more extreme form of itself. Given that it depends of affecting how people FEEL rather than what they know or think this makes it a manipulation that inexorably spawns irrational tyranny of feels that pretend to be thinks ... again, like so much of Left wing ideology. To keep out ahead of the curve means that eventually everything has to be against blacks because everything isn’t inherently black.
Thus the race grievance pimps have steadily pushed much that isn’t either black or white, including math skills now, to somehow now be white.
Did Booker T. Washington have an inkling that the race hustlers of his day would eventually subside into infantilism sufficient to produce crapola like this?
Ah yes I remember that very well.
Even the French are laughing at us.
We know for a fact that German, Russian and Chinese math students aren’t impaired by this PC thinking.
Dumbing down America to the lowest common denominator.
Got to make math pertain to what they do:
Johnny has an AK-47 with an 80-round clip. If he misses 6 out of 10 shots and shoots 13 times at each drive-by shooting, how many drive-by shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?
Jose has 2 ounces of cocaine and he sells an 8-ball to Jackson for $320 and 2 grams to Billy for $85 per gram. What is the street value of the balance of the cocaine if he doesn’t cut it?
Rufus is pimping for three girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800-per-day crack habit?
Jarone want to cut his 1/2 pound of heroin to make 20% more profit. How many ounces of cut will he need?
Willie gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy, and $100 for a 4X4. If he has stolen 2 BMWs, 3 4X4s, how many Chevies will he have to steal to make $800?
Raoul got 6 years for murder. He also got $10,000 for the hit. If his common-law wife spends $100 per month, how much money will be left when he gets out?
Extra credit bonus: how much more time will he get for killing the bitch that that spent his money?
If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can be sprayed with 3 eight ounce cans of spray paint with 20% paint free?
Hector knocked up 3 girls in the gang. There are 27 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Hector knocked up?
Thelma can cook dinner for her 16 children for $7.50 per night. She gets $234 a month welfare for each child. If her $325 per month rent goes up 15%, how many more children should she have to keep up with her expenses?
Salvador was arrested for dealing crack and his bail was set at $25,000. If he pays a bail bondsman 12% and returns to Mexico, how much money will he lose by jumping bail?
Bernie is a lookout for the gang. Bernie has a Boa Constrictor that eats 3 small rats per week at a cost of $5 per rat. If Bernie makes $700 a week as a lookout, how many weeks can he feed the Boa on one week’s income?
Billy steals Joe’s skateboard. As Billy skates away at 35 mph, Joe loads his .357 Magnum. If it takes Joe 20 seconds to load his magnum, how far away will Billy be when he gets whacked?
I am not a CPA, but I believe the accounting concept is called "materiality." Back when I was in B-school, prior to automated accounted systems (software), FASB (if recall correctly - brain synapsis firing for the first time in 40 years) defined "materiality." Again, if I recall correctly, materiality is difficult to pin down. I viewed it similar to valuating goodwill. I believe the motive, considering I have owned several businesses, is that the effort to get figures exact is not necessary if the amount is less than the effort to get them exact as long as it does not substantially impact decision making.
Consider trying to keep track of everything in a hand written ledger, when everything related to all customers and suppliers is also handwritten. Sometimes it isn't worth the effort to get the figures exactly correct. So close enough is good enough.
Sorry that I am dragging this out, but the motive was to be efficient in business operations. It came from a completely different place. It was about running a profitable business and wasting time on little amounts was inefficient. The "bottom line" did not change any analysis or decision making and any error was disclosed in financial statements. Making financial decisions is one of the goals of accounting and that ties into increasing shareholder wealth.
Compare that to businesses today with bloated HR departments, diversity departments, and all kinds of overhead that exists contrary to the the goal of making a profit. It also means less money going into the paychecks of employees that actually help make the profit. All of that is not material to anything, but is sure is accounted for today.
As for the posted article, there is nothing racist about mathematics, getting the right answer and making a profit. Isn't that the point of all of this. It is anti-capitalism. Profit is bad. Mathematics is required to make decisions relating to the profitability of businesses owned by individuals, opposed to government.
My external auditor has a different opinion.
Its ultimate goal is to destroy our ability to think. Because some people are better at it than others.
My high school algebra teacher would go through problems on the chalkboard in front of the room, and sometimes turn and say “Are we agreeable?” in a tone that suggested we were, or else. Thank God we were all a bunch of white kids. I’d hate to think what would have happened if we’d blamed our inability to figure out a word problem on his and society’s inherent racism.
I resemble the Artillery officer remark, I were one (well a corporal, 13E in the Fire Direction Center. And you better know your math, or when the guns shoot, they may hit the infantry and tankers we are supporting and NOT the enemy.
And yes, there was a brief period where artillery units had hard stripe corporals in the FDC along with SP4s. In my case I was slotted against an E-5 Recon Sgt postion, when the Army brought back corporals in the 1976.
Want a math problem to solve?
I saw this one a year or so ago on one of things where they want you to click into. It said “if you can solve this problem you’re a genius”. I certainly don’t consider myself to be a genius but I thought I could solve THAT problem in my head. After looking at it for a minute, I decided I couldn’t solve it in my head, but I did solve it with the help of a pencil and piece of paper. Here’s the equation:
sqrt(x+15) + sqrt(x) = 15.
That's fast! Billy will be about 1027 feet away when Joe fires. Extremely good shooting.
My brother-in-law thinks like this - that you don’t need much math.
I said to him, “You’ve got a modern pickup truck, a television, a computer, internet service, a smart phone, a satellite dish, etc., aren’t you glad that SOMEBODY knows how to do this stuff?”
So being stupid and wrong is a black virtue?
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