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Math prof who argues against ‘truths and knowledge’ to host Carleton College convocation
The College Fix ^ | 08/03/2019 | College Fix Staff

Posted on 08/04/2019 8:18:32 AM PDT by Rusty0604

A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor who argues for a “movement against objects, truths, and knowledge” will be leading a confab at Minnesota’s Carleton College this October.

Carleton’s convocation series, described as “a shared campus experience that brings students, faculty, and staff together for […] a lecture or presentation from specialists in a variety of disciplines,” have “a rich history” dating back to the early 1940s

The relationship between humans, mathematics, and the planet has been one steeped too long in domination and destruction […] Drawing upon Indigenous worldviews to reconceptualize what mathematics is and how it is practiced, I argue for a movement against objects, truths, and knowledge towards a way of being in the world that is guided by first principles–mathematx.

For Professor Gutiérrez, math should be a “moral,” rather than a “rational,” issue.

According to her convocation description, Gutiérrez “demonstrates how mathematics perpetuates white privilege, and how evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities”:

The way our economy places a premium on mathematics skills also gives a form of unearned privilege for math professors, who are disproportionately white. The solution, Gutiérrez contends, goes beyond closing the achievement gap or recruiting more diverse students into the mathematical sciences. Mathematics teachers need to be prepared with much more than just content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, or knowledge of diverse students if they are going to be successful. They must become more aware of the politics that mathematics brings to society

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TOPICS: Education; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: carletoncollege; illinois; leftistsexists; leftwingbigots; minnesota; rochellegutierrez; sexists; stem; stringtheory; uofillinois; urbanachampaign
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To: Rusty0604

In some cities algebra was proposed as an elective-only for high school because maff is hard. The solution was raised to keep kids from failing.

And the parents reacted. They told the school boards to stop dumbing the kids any further.

My 7 year old Chinese American Grand daughter already does division and multiplication and is learning simple algebraic equations She loves math.

Our family expects the children to learn.


21 posted on 08/04/2019 8:57:43 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Rusty0604

Yes its very sad!
It’s typical of liberals.
She might have some authority to comment on racism.
In regard to math her familiarity is not much more then how to spell the word.


22 posted on 08/04/2019 9:14:00 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Rusty0604

I want a ‘white privilege’ math educated Civil Engineer building that bridge, or Aeronautical Engineer designing that aircraft.

SJWs are welcome to alternative realities.


23 posted on 08/04/2019 9:16:49 AM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: OpusatFR
My 7 year old Chinese American Grand daughter already does division and multiplication and is learning simple algebraic equations She loves math.

Math wasn't invented to keep brown people down.

Math was invented by people who like math, and who enjoy experiencing the thoughts one can think when one knows some math.

It so happens that you can accomplish some pretty useful things when you can think that kind of thoughts, and — if you're lucky and somewhat disciplined — you can make some pretty good money as a result.

Obsessing about the color of your skin won't help you do any of those things. It is not useful. It is a bad habit, and is not a good thing to teach.

24 posted on 08/04/2019 9:21:49 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Rusty0604

Exchanging truth for lies- pretty soon, ‘Truth’ will be whatever a liberal says it is


25 posted on 08/04/2019 9:31:30 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: A strike

Me too!


26 posted on 08/04/2019 9:33:14 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Steely Tom

Very true. Math wasnt invented by people. Our planet and universe are based on mathematical truths. Man has used discoveries to understand, invent, etc.


27 posted on 08/04/2019 9:37:56 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Rusty0604

hey...when I write down a math problem, the numbers are in black</s off>

USC cancelled her earlier this year

First all math was political
https://theeducatorsroom.com/mathematics-political-post-session-rochelle-gutierrez/

now it’s racist.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/math-racist-university-illinois-professor/


28 posted on 08/04/2019 9:41:42 AM PDT by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Bob434

I remember, way back in college, some professors saying truth is in your mind. I though they were just talking about some personal things, not realities.


29 posted on 08/04/2019 9:41:49 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Bob434

Were almost there.


30 posted on 08/04/2019 9:42:22 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: stylin19a

True story. I was an accountant before I retired. One day before Thanksgiving, a black coworker asked me why they call the day after “black Friday”, thinking it was racist. I explained to him that was a good day for business, because that is the day many retailers go from “in the red”, or no profit, to “in the black”, or showing profit. It had nothing to do with race, never did.


31 posted on 08/04/2019 9:48:12 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Rusty0604
because that is the day many retailers go from “in the red”, or no profit, to “in the black”, or showing profit. It had nothing to do with race, never did.

LOL, and even in that case being "in the black" is a good thing, so he should be happy about it.

32 posted on 08/04/2019 9:50:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rusty0604

Yup- We’re very close- and yup- way back in the day, people were saying ‘truth is whatever you decide it is’- and ‘there is no right or wrong’ This was all not long after the time Dr spock came out with his ‘parenting’ book - right around the time kids began becoming angry- ugly acting- It took awhile before kids began losing respect for authorities- but now we’re into pretty full blown- which is why i believe we’re seeing tragedies like we have seen in the last few years- angry angry kids- who were likely never raised with objective rules and regulations and taught to respect others- and who think the truth is whatever they want it to be-


33 posted on 08/04/2019 9:51:24 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Rusty0604
I remember, way back in college, some professors saying truth is in your mind. I though they were just talking about some personal things, not realities.

"Truth" is "what works."

All the technology that we're surrounded with these days, including the medium by means of which we're presently communicating, was created by people who were focused — in most cases from early childhood — on figuring out "what works," and using things that others had invented to figure out more of "what works" than their forebears were able to.

There was something about their minds that made figuring out "what works" enjoyable; they perceived it as pleasurable, often since the time they were toddlers.

James Clerk Maxwell, who was admired by Einstein, would as a little boy ask his mother this question: "what is the go of it?" He was too little to know how to say "how does it work?"

34 posted on 08/04/2019 9:52:02 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: stylin19a; All

Both very good links.


35 posted on 08/04/2019 9:54:51 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: The people have spoken

This is not a Math Prof.

Probably not connected to the Unabomber?

Still just as nuts.


36 posted on 08/04/2019 10:08:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Rusty0604

yikes...the co-worker was an accountant ?


37 posted on 08/04/2019 10:09:13 AM PDT by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Rusty0604

We have to read 5 paragraphs before we are told that this is a “she.” As if it weren’t obvious from the first.

This thing is obsessed with words like “latina,” “Latinx,” “Black,” “mathematx.” It obviously has no idea what mathematics is and is not fit to teach it, because it rejects objective truth and the logical principles upon which mathematics is based.

An affirmative action hire.


38 posted on 08/04/2019 10:23:01 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: stylin19a

No, I was an accountant, he had another position in the office.


39 posted on 08/04/2019 10:24:29 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: dfwgator

Yep. I remember one time saying that an avocado wasnt any good because it was black, then worrying that statement would cause trouble.


40 posted on 08/04/2019 10:27:19 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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