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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No. Some people are stupid, and can’t handle math. They are dumb. Math is not racist.
Rochelle Gutierrez———no thanks.
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Yeah. They drove all their best scientists to the U.S. How'd that work out for the Axis?
Believe me, it’s already infiltrating STEM. And that is scary.
- a registered professional engineer.
Basically, yes. That's exactly what she's saying.
Learning to read is also racist. As is every other academic pursuit. The government should not participate in this. We need to abolish the public education system.
“The muslins were responsible for the concept of zero”
The muslims are responsible for killing all the people and the culture that created the concept of zero then taking credit for it
Yes pi is difficult. They keep saying pee and giggling. How can I teach under these conditions?
2017/10/24 not 12/28/2017
I know I’ve seen this here before. Maybe not the foxnews but the priginal source of campusreform
So black privilege is bolstered by not teaching math, not doing homework, having babies out of wedlock, and assaulting teachers.
What world is a better one to live in?
Oh and this was just to ridicule the logic, I reject the idiotic premise.
Dear Rochelle Gutierrez:
“White Privilege” put American men on the Moon. What have you one to equal that?
GFYourself.
#ItsOKtoBeWhite
The sad thing is that most here agree with what she’s saying...otherwise they wouldn’t keep sending their kids to be’educated’ by HER STUDENTS, her deciples, in our public schools.
UI defends professor after book chapter draws attention | News ...
www.news-gazette.com › News › Local
Oct 26, 2017 - CHAMPAIGN — A book chapter written by a University of Illinois education professor who contended that mathematics operates as an unearned privilege in society, “just like Whiteness,” is attracting a flurry of attention.
God derived the first function of what has since been discovered as mathematics. Her problem is with Him.
It would also hamstring certain members “of the community” and quotas in government (and private) hiring would always provide them employment despite their communication problems.
They’ll hold you back and then brag about what they did for ya...
“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,””
Translation: Its bad that people who can actually do math get credit for it. Its also bad that people who can’t do math are not part of the mathematical community.
“In the book Gutierrez points out that mathematics operates as a proxy for intelligence, but asks, “are we really that smart just because we do mathematics?””
Its safe to say the people who can do math are generally smarter than people who CAN’T do math.
“As researchers, are we more deserving of large grants because we focus on mathematics education and not social studies or English?”
Blacks don’t do well in those subjects either.
“If one is not viewed as mathematical, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned” because the average person won’t necessarily question the role of mathematics in society, she writes. “...there are so many people who “have experienced microaggressions from participating in math classrooms… [where people are] judged by whether they can reason abstractly.”
It is generally accepted that people who are unable to do social studies, english, history, math, etc., are intellectually inferior to those that can. It would be very hard to make a rational argument otherwise.
Oh that is rich. Forget about Quadratic Equations and focus on the politics of it.
Stupid Liberal Bitch. (Probably lives in Raleigh)
You are one wild and kuh-razeee neo-pythagorean!
Correct, she is racist!
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