The ninth grade public school math text I had a chance to read through only a few years back, in the first chapter taught the kids how to make their numbers in sign language.
In 9TH grade.
And ALL the pictures were of racially and gender balanced smiling kids doing mindless activities like using tangrams.
The only white males in the pictures were either in the background or wheelchairs.
Exactly. The propaganda is so blatant it’s emabarassing.
Hey, that's not mindless! I did Tangrams with my Junior Girl Scout troop last year, and they almost died of frustration!
Irrelevant to teaching 9th grade math, of course: they should be learning Geometry or Algebra II!