Posted on 02/22/2021 4:35:22 AM PST by NOBO2012
The Bill and Melinda Gates’ gazillion dollar Foundation wants you to know that we’ve been doing it wrong lo these many years. Math that is.
We’ve been using - and teaching - math in a racist way.
“It allows the defensiveness of Western mathematics to prevail, without addressing underlying causes of why certain groups of students are ‘underperforming,’ a characterization that should also be interrogated,” the text warns. “It also presupposes that ‘good’ math teaching is about a Eurocentric type of mathematics, devoid of cultural ways of being.”
Allow me to interpret that mouth-full-brain-empty word salad: math is hard, and racist; and we, the Social Justice Warriors, are here to inflict equity on that racist, imperialist discipline.
The lessons in Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction warn educators that “white supremacy culture” shows up in the classroom when teachers “treat mistakes as problems by equating them with wrongness” because it “reinforces the ideas of perfectionism (that students shouldn’t make mistakes) and paternalism (teachers or other experts can and should correct mistakes).”
A core belief of the toolkit is that students of color interpret and use math differently than white students. If you teach students of color the “right” way to do math, you are reinforcing white supremacy culture.
Riiiight. And plantation owners didn’t want their slaves to learn how to read and write either, I suspect for similar reasons. So let DeShawn and Kenisha exercise their cultural creativity and believe that 2 + 2 = 5, they can always go on to become journalists and politicians.
In Summary
OUT: teaching math the old fashioned way, which entails the use of white supremacist numbers, signs and symbols as well as racist concepts like “there is a right answer.”
IN: Allowing children to intuit math via “storytelling circles, incorporating dance, music, song, call and response, and other cultural ways of communicating.”
Here’s the problem: “communicating” is what language is for. Math is for building bridges, sending rocket probes to Mars and…oh, yes, coding. Which prompted me to create this QR code for our technological overlords to scan whenever they feel like reordering the universe; it will remind them of their true societal role.
ShutUpAndCode®
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
BAM!
Liberalism: Undoing The Emancipation Proclamation for 160 years.
I still have an article from the 1990s where one of the greatest thinkers of our time, Rosie O’Donnell, said that there is no need to teach math because we have computers. Some of these people are just as “awesome” in how they think.
There is way too much Dunning Kruger Effect going on. As with Rosie and the rest of the hosts that have been on the View, They are so dumb they don’t know they are dumb. Another observation, some of the most highly educated people I have known or worked with are also the ones that lack common sense and even an awareness of the real world.
“underlying causes of why certain groups of students are ‘underperforming,’”
Skin color hatred, obviously. Could a group funded by Bill and Melinda Gates possibly reach any other conclusion?
Bump!
Emancipation for all of US!
They can go Pound Sand.
Coding is not so many about math than it is logic.
I’d be happy to apply some of this “new math” as the Gates’ personal accountant.
Math is the science that is the basis for our world.
Physics is applied mathematics.
Chemistry is applied Physics.
Biology is applied Chemistry.
I don’t know what the heck Political Science is.
“We have always been at war with East Asia. 2+2=5.”
So, through backdoor social justice, only white kids will excel at math and black kids will be further (and purposefully) left behind in society.
Interestingly enough, computers will only work correctly with “correct code” entered.
Debugging = correcting mistakes.
/Dance/ that one out, DeShawn.
So, blacks won’t be able to become employed creating code for the internet-age.
Again, only whites will be employed and blacks will be “under-privileged”.
On purpose.
:: I don’t know what the heck Political Science is. ::
It’s one of the...wait for it...
...Social SCIENCES!
:-)
“I don’t know what the heck Political Science is.”
P.T. Barnum on steriods...
So, through backdoor social justice, only white kids will excel at math and black kids will be further (and purposefully) left behind in society.
Guess again. They are going to destroy Math instruction for ALL CHILDREN.
The Russians, Chinese and Indians are laughing their a## off at us.
What else should we expect from leftists? After all, they believe that a person who is a man or is a woman can "identify" as the opposite sex, or no sex/gender at all, or some completely made-up BS gender -- on a whim. "I'll identify as male today...or female today...or broccoli today..."
It should come as no surprise that a group (leftists) that denies biological fact for feelings would similarly deny mathematical objective fact. "Today I'm going to say that 2+2=4...no wait, I'm feeling like it's more like 2+2=5 today, yeah, let's go with that..."
Hey Bill, I think your insistence that I pay for MS Windows and MS Office software is racist and culturally insensitive. You should allow everyone equal access to these products and allow us to pay each in our own culturally-sensitive way. How 'bout it Bill?
Is this why my Windows PC had to be rebooted 5 times to finally run last Friday?
I thought I was confused but maybe not ...
If a person identifies as ‘white’, 3 x 5 = 15 and the answer is racist.
If a person does not identify as ‘white’, 3 x 5 = ?? and the world is down with that.
But that brings up a thought ... would you like to take a trip to the Moon in a vehicle designed and built by non-whites?
This explains so much about the Windows operating system.
I think Microsoft now has a majority Indian programmers. Americans need not apply.
As Brian Valentine of Microsoft said once upon a time : “Think India! Two for the price of one.”
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