For Professor Gutiérrez, math should be a “moral,” rather than a “rational,” issue.
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Posted on 08/04/2019 8:18:32 AM PDT by Rusty0604
A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor who argues for a “movement against objects, truths, and knowledge” will be leading a confab at Minnesota’s Carleton College this October.
Carleton’s convocation series, described as “a shared campus experience that brings students, faculty, and staff together for […] a lecture or presentation from specialists in a variety of disciplines,” have “a rich history” dating back to the early 1940s
The relationship between humans, mathematics, and the planet has been one steeped too long in domination and destruction […] Drawing upon Indigenous worldviews to reconceptualize what mathematics is and how it is practiced, I argue for a movement against objects, truths, and knowledge towards a way of being in the world that is guided by first principles–mathematx.
For Professor Gutiérrez, math should be a “moral,” rather than a “rational,” issue.
According to her convocation description, Gutiérrez “demonstrates how mathematics perpetuates white privilege, and how evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities”:
The way our economy places a premium on mathematics skills also gives a form of unearned privilege for math professors, who are disproportionately white. The solution, Gutiérrez contends, goes beyond closing the achievement gap or recruiting more diverse students into the mathematical sciences. Mathematics teachers need to be prepared with much more than just content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, or knowledge of diverse students if they are going to be successful. They must become more aware of the politics that mathematics brings to society
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
For Professor Gutiérrez, math should be a “moral,” rather than a “rational,” issue.
In a sane world this “professor” would be tarred, feathered and tied to a rail.
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Posted on 08/04/2019 3:03:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Math is quite a rational issue.
Ditto that.
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