Math - It only works for values of x greater than 1. But if x is 2 then 8/2 = 4 = four pieces of 8.
Posted on 02/18/2021 8:41:59 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Behind ‘Anti-Racist’ Math Push
Liberal education collective claims asking students to show work is racist
A radical new push to purge math curricula of allegedly racist practices like showing your work and finding the correct answer is bankrolled by one of the nation's most prominent nonprofits: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Gates Foundation is the only donor mentioned on the homepage of A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction, a group of 25 education organizations whose curriculum states that asking students to show their work and find the right answer is an inherently racist practice.
Over the past decade, the Gates Foundation has given upward of $140 million to some of the groups behind Pathway, whose antiracist resources are the basis for a new teacher training course offered by the Oregon Department of Education.
The Education Trust, a California-based group that promoted the September release of Pathway's antiracist "toolkit," has received $86 million from the Gates Foundation, including a $3.6 million grant awarded in June.
Teach Plus, another group dedicated to creating an antiracist culture in K-12 schools, has received more than $27 million from the Gates Foundation. The group's board members include former Democratic congressman George Miller and Obama-era secretary of education John King Jr.—who is also the president of The Education Trust.
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Math is math. It can’t be racist.
Another step in common core idiocy. Dumming down American youth, one victim at a time.
Math may be the one thing that isn’t racist. The left should accept the fact that life isn’t “equitable”. Some can do math, some can bounce a ball. What does the Gates foundation care about this? He can only count to one.
Maybe the vaccine that Comrade Gates is so fervently endorsing will eliminate “ racism “.
Man, these nerds are a broken record.
It would let Gates import more Asian tech coolies if there really are no qualified Americans left; many products of today’s schools can perform few low-skill jobs, never mind high-skilled ones...
How about “0”s and “1”s?
“1”s are much superior to “0”s.
Are they equally populated?
All Bill’s code should have the “1”s removed.
That might remove all the supremacist bugs, I mean ‘enhancements’ (which are supremacist by defn.)
Hey why dont you make an entire software and application development team with these people? It might help if they are not burdened using modern programming languages too that shield coders from understanding even the most basic forms of mathematics
I bet none of these people consider math to be racist when someone is counting their change.
2+2=5 is racist.
Or, allowing..and not correcting ..someone could be.
What point is math if you don’t get right answer?
Planes may fall out of the sky and cars’ wheels fall of mid destination, but hey everyone gets an equitable grade in math.
But it was the Gates Foundation that was pushing Common Core in the first place.
They'd do better to find 10,000 smart and motivated people, and give each of them $14k.
Tired of this jerks ‘God complex’.
Hope Karma catches up with him sooner rather than later...
Math - It only works for values of x greater than 1. But if x is 2 then 8/2 = 4 = four pieces of 8.
Gates wouldn’t think math is racist if someone short-changed him on his investments.
I think people get so rich they lose their minds. Added to that they are flattered all the time and they can’t let that stop so they keep writing checks, regardless of how preposterous the claims. The more they give to lunacy the more they sink into it and into the clutches of the democrats. Common sense has left years ago and nothing remains but a big EGO bloated from toxic praise. They are applause-a-holics that constantly rely on their handlers to feed the addiction. Money ends up being a curse because it constantly feeds the beast.
i hate these two assholes.
Let me guess - at the bottom of it all, the solution is to ‘dumb down’ math to ‘level the playing field’.
Idiots.
Bill Gates destroys mathematics education so that nobody can follow in his footsteps.
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