Posted on 02/25/2021 3:31:31 AM PST by MtnClimber
Across America, math teaching practices that were considered essential are suddenly being condemned as racist.
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, set in the superstate of Oceania, the government propagates the absurd equation 2 + 2 = 5. Through steady indoctrination, and under the ever-watchful Thought Police, the citizens accept it as an unquestionable truth. The equation symbolizes the extinction of free thought in repressive totalitarian societies: facts, truths and objective reality are subordinated to political will and twisted to serve the authoritarian goals of the Party and its leader, Big Brother.
Something similar is happening in many American schools. An eerie Orwellian shadow is being cast over math instruction. The focus is insidiously shifting from arithmetic, geometry, and algebra to critical race theory, ethnic studies, and intersectionality. Ridiculous as it may sound, an objective field of knowledge is being thrust into the realm of social experimentation. Students are being taught not how to think but what to think. Instead of developing critical thinking skills, today’s math classes stipulate that students hold particular views about the world and instruct them on how they must extinguish what is posited as “wrongthink.”
Across America, math teaching practices that were considered essential are suddenly being condemned as racist, requiring students to display the steps in solving a problem is now deemed white supremacist; teachers’ corrections, and even the concept of a correct answer, are considered suspect or undesirable; polite interaction, raising hands before commenting or asking questions, and maintaining order in the classroom are viewed as reinforcing paternalism and condemned as “power hoarding.”
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It seems like minorities are just a tool used by the left against good people to tear down western civilization.
Stupid people are far easier to control.
I had a hard time calculating circles until I realized that pi is basically 3.
I always go back and read articles like this whenever I’m tempted to get angry when large U.S. corporations push the Federal government to approve more H-1B visas for STEM workers.
My preference of pi is definitely three, apple, banana cream and anything peanut butter.
There are plenty of non Chinese and Indian STEM workers in America. Though we are mostly White males, so HR disapproves.
I have a BS with a math major, that degree paid for itself many times over.
My minor was military science (ROTC), and that also paid for itself many times over.
Now I working to keep my daughter interested in Math, thank God she goes to a Catholic School where I haven’t seen the racist math BS (yet).
Actually, 3.1428571 etc.
Numbers be racist an’ s**t!
CC
Ahem . . . 3.1415926. Too much pi will give your calcs a bellyache.
I think it is more about the illiterates gradeeated from liberal schools who remain dumbed-down for manipulation and hatred toward those who succeed. It is a sizeable crowd of dummies who now wield some power under control by the liberal elites!
LOL! Common core at it again.
If you’re a Whitey and you get the right answer, you’re an oppressor and deserve to have all your money taken and given to the other side.
If you’re a non-Whitey, you don’t have to get the right answer because of those evil oppressor Whiteys who are keeping you down with their evil math invention that they created to oppress you.
2 + 2 = 5.6. There are an infinite number of genders. You can pass from one to another at will. But you are gay from the moment of conception. But you are just a mass of cells until you are out of the womb and the mother decides to keep you. It’s a shame to abandon a litter of pups, but it’s OK to throw the baby in the dumpster 200 feet from the “no questions asked” drop off point for babies. But to leave an animal at a shelter you have to fill out a form and leave a donation. But a Whitey who claims to be a non-Whitey is fired, ostracized and shamed. But you can be a man today and a woman tomorrow. But if your great-great-great grandmother/father belonged to an Indian tribe, you can get priority in college admissions and job applications. But if your ancestors lived in Europe you are herded into an auditorium on the first day of college and the burden of White Guilt is placed on your shoulders.
Wasnt it amazing to watch children turn in their own parents over the “insurrection”? You cant write this stuff.... oh wait Orwell did lol.
I moved from Seattle to rural KY ten years ago. I found that I was very slowly tuning out US culture. Then the pandemic hit. Suddenly my tuning out was at the speed of sound.
Yesterday I went to the eye doctor. Before that trip my Life360 said I’d been home since February 12. I even missed church due to the weather. I visited four stores to get some stuff and never had to wear a mask, and then I went home. I don’t expect to have to mingle reason to leave home except for church for quite a while.
Before the pandemic, I drove 155 miles to and from my job in Louisville every day. Now I work from home. I feel a bit like the guy on a ranch in mid 1800’s Nevada, except I don’t have to worry about Indians and Mexicans. And I have all the water I need.
Thank you, Amazon.
Thankfully, that can NEVER HAPPEN in the public schools that my children go to. Maybe in the other 99% of public schools, but not ours! Why, because we parents will NEVER allow it to happen. We watch those teachers, yes we do. The moment they step out of line, we let them know we don’t approve!
(and anyway, the public schools are free, so who really cares what goes on in there)
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I recall a quick way to obtain pi accurate to 6 decimal places on the simplest of calculators is to remember 113355. Divide the last three digits by the first three and you get 3.141592. Saved me a few times in the “old days” of hand-held calculators with only the basic functions.
“Wasnt it amazing to watch children turn in their own parents over the “insurrection”? You cant write this stuff.... oh wait Orwell did lol.”
Considering that public school teachers typically spend FAR MORE TIME talking to kids than their own parents (who are lucky to talk with their kids for an hour in a single day), having the kids more loyal to their ‘teachers’ than their parents shouldn’t come as a surprise...nor should having their kids get molded into flaming Leftists.
But what the heck, public schools are FREE, and we all must make it our top priority to keep up with the Jones. Right?
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