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.
As Denise Miller said, “Two of sh** is still sh**. If they really want to screw you they’ll give you three of the f’n things.”
My sons university engineering class in computers was mostly Chinese, Indians and a few Russians and Middle Easterners.
Tell them how racist math is
This is deliberately creating a class of no thinking government dependents.
“I’d be happy to apply some of this “new math” as the Gates’ personal accountant.”
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I was going to comment similarly. I bet if suddenly there was “non-white” math applied to their financial holdings affecting it negatively - there would NOT be placid acceptance by Bill and Melinda.
Make sure you click on the QR code.
Sure sounds racist to me. They are essentially saying that people of color can “do” math.
Are they the ones behind the OR Education Department advancing this in OR schools? When I read about it a couple of weeks ago - probably here - Gates wasn’t mentioned but I should have known it would have come from some creep like him...and his wife!
“”people of color can “do” math.””
Can’t?
“”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? “”
Even better - refund all costs of your systems to us culturally insensitive white people! From the first O/S (don’t remember the number) to today! All I know is I have Windows 10 which I didn’t request....it was loaded in front of my eyes when I was told on my bank’s website that I needed to upgrade with no way or at least none that I knew of - to stop it!! When that was done, I could get into my bank’s website and found out the bank changed their website which made it NECESSARY to have Windows 10 to access.. SNEAKY - SNEAKY!
I’ve been spouting venom and hatred about Bill Gates ever since!
Was that in Atlanta some years back?
IIRC a woman-owned engineering firm; the review of their actual engineering work after the collapse was scathing to say the least.
https://www.miamiherald.com/article212571434.html
"The designers utilized two commonly used computer models to analyze stresses on their bridge design to determine the strength required for each structural piece. Beck and Howell, who say they did their own simpler calculations to back-check the numbers used by FIGG, concluded the figures in the firm's calculations significantly under-represent the forces working on the No. 11 truss piece, the last diagonal strut on the bridge's north end."
"That configuration put heavy stress on one member, but for whatever reason, [the designers] did not realize it was underdesigned for the stress," Beck said."
Very interesting - thank you. FL does sound right....
If these liberal idiots, and that’s redundancy right there, feel this way than they shouldn’t take a salary.
After all, numbers determine an amount. In the case of money, well, those are numbers, aren’t they.
Maybe they’d feel better if instead of a check with ‘racist’’ numbers on it they were given bits of cloth, soap figurines and some one sang them a happy song.
Ironically, English lit professors now teach that language is not a tool for communication, a thing used to convey information between others for some useful purpose, but, instead, is only a vehicle for “self-expression.”
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