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White privilege bolstered by teaching math, university professor says
Fox Newswire ^ | 12/28/17 | Gearty

Posted on 12/28/2017 11:00:51 AM PST by pabianice

A math education professor at the University of Illinois says the ability to solve geometry and algebra problems and teaching such subjects perpetuates so-called white privilege.

Rochelle Gutierrez laid out her views on the subject in an article for a newly published anthology for math educators titled, “Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods.”

“School mathematics curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean Theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans," she says, according to Campus Reform.

She also says that addressing equity in mathematics education will come when teachers can understand and negotiate the politics outside the classroom.

“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as white,” she writes.

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She's nuts, Jim.
1 posted on 12/28/2017 11:00:51 AM PST by pabianice
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To: pabianice

Numbers are racist!...............


2 posted on 12/28/2017 11:01:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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Is she saying black are inferior to whites? Now that’s racist:-)


3 posted on 12/28/2017 11:03:03 AM PST by Harpotoo
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Notice that she is in math education and not in a
mathematics department.


4 posted on 12/28/2017 11:03:05 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: pabianice

White Privilege is now defined as any type of skill, competence, personal responsibility, or respect for others.

We should simply lower ourselves to the level of the savages that demean us.


5 posted on 12/28/2017 11:03:25 AM PST by T-Bone Texan
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To: pabianice

How long will it be before humans forget how to make steel?


6 posted on 12/28/2017 11:03:58 AM PST by blam
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To: pabianice
The muslins were responsible for the concept of zero:

That should account for something.

7 posted on 12/28/2017 11:03:59 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkey)
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To: pabianice

Just teach the math, and stop whining about who invented it!

One idiot plus another idiot equals two idiots!


8 posted on 12/28/2017 11:04:25 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: pabianice

Marh is hard and Bill Clinton wanted official recognition of ebonics (mispronunciation, misuse of words, and poor grammar) to become ‘accepted’.


9 posted on 12/28/2017 11:04:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: pabianice

It’s pronounced “maff”


10 posted on 12/28/2017 11:04:42 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: T-Bone Texan

She’s still pimping the lie school kids’ peers tell them that to try to succeed in school is actin’ white.


11 posted on 12/28/2017 11:06:00 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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I think its more then two!
When combining idiots the number as well as their effect grows exponentially !


12 posted on 12/28/2017 11:06:42 AM PST by Reily
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To: pabianice

She should go fly on an airplane designed by mulit-cultural diverse people who have not been exposed to white priviledge.


13 posted on 12/28/2017 11:07:13 AM PST by forgotten man
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“School mathematics curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean Theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans,"

Yeah....and?

Compare what's standing in Europe and Africa.

Do the math as they say!

14 posted on 12/28/2017 11:07:38 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: pabianice

So is it this racist’s view that nonwhites are incapable of learning algebra and geometry? And this is a published article?


15 posted on 12/28/2017 11:07:43 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: blam

Rosie has already gone over that cliff.

https://www.cnsnews.com/video/newsbusters/rosie-odonnell-911-truther-first-time-fire-melted-steel


16 posted on 12/28/2017 11:08:41 AM PST by mazda77
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Bill Clinton wanted official recognition of ebonics...

"Ebonics" was just another way for mostly black school districts to get additional funds.

"Recognition" would mean that they could claim an additional language instruction and leech funds from some existing program for "non-English-Speaking students".

17 posted on 12/28/2017 11:09:42 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: blam

350-500 years is my guess.


18 posted on 12/28/2017 11:10:28 AM PST by wgmalabama
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To: Harpotoo
"Is she saying black are inferior to whites? Now that’s racist:-)"

That was my first impression. The only way what she's saying makes sense is if she's assuming whites are better at math than blacks.

19 posted on 12/28/2017 11:11:26 AM PST by circlecity
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She's nuts, Jim.


She is not nuts.

She is rational and dangerous.

The affirmative action culture has finally recognized and accepted the reality of the Bell Curve.

They understand that the current generation of affirmative action college enrollees do not have the skills and mental capacity to compete with the mainstream members of society.

They are trying to mau -mau their way to false parity with higher achieving members of society using racism as a pretext

20 posted on 12/28/2017 11:11:46 AM PST by rdcbn
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