Posted on 12/28/2017 11:00:51 AM PST by pabianice
A math education professor at the University of Illinois says the ability to solve geometry and algebra problems and teaching such subjects perpetuates so-called white privilege.
Rochelle Gutierrez laid out her views on the subject in an article for a newly published anthology for math educators titled, “Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods.”
“School mathematics curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean Theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans," she says, according to Campus Reform.
She also says that addressing equity in mathematics education will come when teachers can understand and negotiate the politics outside the classroom.
“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as white,” she writes.
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Professor just another term for whack job
Gives new meaning to history and prophecy.
May I steal it, I don't have a Gibmedats card?
lol
Math phobia is not just for ghettos and barrios.
Bingo. Math education is to math as astrology is to astronomy. I'll eat my hat if this particular professor can describe a quadratic equation, much less solve one. Too hard? Call it "racist" and you don't have to learn it. Or teach it.
Jesse Jackson bought Toys-R-Us.
It will now be named
We b toys n shit
#FAKEEDUCATION
You are spot on with your observations.
Mercator chart projections have been called racist as well
because of the distortion that result when going from 3-D to 2-D. However, the mercator navigation charts are drawn so that on the vertical lines, one inch is the same distance on the entire chart. If not navigation is much more difficult.
“Colored Privilege” == the right to say the most idiotic, racist things against whites, and be taken seriously.
It is obvious, there were great mathematicians in sub-Saharan Africa and they achieved great knowledge but those evil whites (not their fellow melanin-rich neighbors or those fine upstanding Muslim believers) hunted them down, destroying their works and enslaving them to other places. /s
Yes, there were excellent mathematicians in Islam (al jabr) as there were in India and China BUT my dear Ms Gutierrez, the singular line of development in this field goes from the ancient Middle East, Greece, Rome, the Islamic Caliphates and then to Europe from the post Crusade periods. The half millennium plus from 1400 to 2000 was almost entirely white European in mathematical progress.
Neither all of your tears or ravings can wipe that fact off of the history books. All of those names, too many to mention, come from or have ancestry derived from there. All this being said, I want to know who your students are so I can AVOID any structures who critical values were computed by the math you teach!
Professional basket ball is racist and does not welcome short people.
Take a gander at this SJWs bio page: https://education.illinois.edu/faculty/rg1
A pretty lady. It’s a shame that she hates truth.
Look at all the free money she was given in her affirmative action/SJW dominated academic life:
GRANTS
Illinois-Sweden Program for Educational and Research Exchange. New Belonging Through Math Education. A look at the mathematical experiences of immigrant youth in the US and Sweden. Awarded to Paola Valero (Stockholm University) & Rochelle Gutierrez (University of Illinois). ($199,520. from 8/16 – 12/17) For this grant, I will be reviewing literature with Dr. Valero and teaching a doctoral seminar at Stockholm University in the fall of 2017.
National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator. Noyce Illinois: Preparing Excellence and Diversity in Secondary Mathematics Teachers for Illinois’ High Needs Schools. ($900,000 from 6/09 - 6/14).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Public Engagement Grant. Principal Investigator. iMATHS: Building Mathematical Identities with/in Latin@ and Black Youth. ($12,500., 1/12 – 12/12; $8,200., 1/15—12/15)
American Educational Research Association/Institute of Education Sciences, United States Department of Education. Principal Investigator. A Community of Practice Model for Teacher Education: Developing Teacher Candidates’ Abilities to Teach Quality Mathematics to Diverse Students. ($25,000 from 7/03-8/05; one year extension 6/07-6/08).
Fulbright Scholars Program. Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Principal Investigator. Understanding Mathematics Teacher Work Groups as a Model for Professional Development: Learning from México ($33,000 from 5/04-5/05).
Research Board. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Principal Investigator. Teacher Candidates’ Understanding of Teaching Mathematics to Diverse Students. ($25,000 from 8/02-5/03).
National Academy of Education. Co-principal Investigator (with Lory Dance and Mary Hermes). Teaching Students of Color: Cross-Cultural Explorations. ($5,625 from 2/00-8/02).
Faculty Fellows Program. Bureau of Educational Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Principal Investigator. Teaching for Latina/Latino Student Advancement ($15,000 from 8/99-6/00).
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowships. Principal Investigator. Advancing Latina/o Urban High School Students in Mathematics: Practices, Beliefs, and Consequences of an Effective Mathematics Department ($45,000 from 5/98-6/99).
National Academy of Education. Co-principal Investigator (with Danny Martin and Rodney McNair). Culture and Mathematics. ($6,000 from 10/98-10/99).
Graduate Student Awards and Grants
The Spencer Foundation. Dissertation Award. Beyond Tracking: How the Beliefs, Practices, and Cultures of High School Mathematics Departments Influence Student Advancement ($22,000 from 9/94-12/95).
University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. Principal Investigator. Student Advancement and the Teaching Cultures in High School Mathematics Departments ($15,000 from 9/93-12/94).
She’s gotten about 1.2 million in grants!
This is one of the reasons these racist idiots shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a classroom.
Now that would serve them right wouldn't it?
Her theories are truly a mythmath.
LOL!
Illinois has a very good math department. I think some guys from that department solved the Four Color Map problem.
Wouldn't it be fun to see the faculty of the math department go over and picket the math ed department!
Zero came from India
Would anyone who respects that Constitution--or the heritage that it represents--have any reason whatsoever, to denounce "whiteness,' whatever that is intended to mean to the hate driven loon?
There may be all sorts of differences of opinion, which may be endlessly debated. But an opinion that denies--and seeks to remove--the very heritage that our founding was intended to protect, clearly, has no place among those pretending to any meaningful citizenship.
In other words, she’s a professional grifter.
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