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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Tell me about it. The only thing this jerk ever did was create BASIC which nobody uses today and scam the guy who created DOS and for this he’s richer than anybody should be. Same with that Facebook ass, a freakin website and the guy is worth $40 BILLION?
I have noticed that black people tend to be the very best athletes and are over-represented in sports.
Perhaps they should have to wear weights on their wrists and ankles until there is an equitable balance of races.
GATES IS EVIL!
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within” - Abraham Lincoln.
convert all math word proplems to drug and pimp type stories they will do just fine
The article points out that they want the teachers to be accepting of different problem solving approaches. My son had a problem in school and I showed him how to solve it. He said the teacher wouldn’t like the approach I used to solve it. It produced the correct answer and was the approach I remember learning.
IMHO, as long as the approach produces the correct answer what difference does it make? Perhaps it makes it more difficult to grade partial credit. The idea that different approaches are due to white privilege is ridiculous.
Perhaps they should have to wear weights on their wrists and ankles until there is an equitable balance of races.
Like slaves lmao i see what you did her
“Show your work, Rosa Parks!”
Nevermind the variables. Just get students to understand addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimels, and percentages by the end of 8th grade. Let the 9-12 choose their level of expansion of math from then on.
Urbanites have mastered kilos
Do they realize how utterly, completely, laughably idiotic they sound? Why bother learning? Why worry about the right answers?
Do they think "close enough" or "he/she tried" is good enough to get a Falcon-9 into orbit? Would they settle for engineers who merely "felt good" about their work having designed the ABS brakes on their cars? That smoke detector in your home, designed and built "good enough" that ok?
No, of course not. The real world requires the right answer, period. If you can't do the work, don't try to do the work. If your talents aren't in math, then they're not in math. Don't dumb down math just to make some people feel better. Hey, no-one is dumbing down signing or dancing for me. I could be a virtuoso...if the standards are low enough. There's probably no help for my golf game unless they let me simply walk down to the green and drop the ball in the cup, but I digress...
This push is the dumbest thing I've heard this decade. Probably the dumbest thing I've heard this century.
AMEN!!!
Is there anything Lord and Lady Gates dont know?
Exactly, and when you stop caring about finding the right answer and these little numbskulls grow up to become architects and engineers, buildings and bridges collapse.
The real world and the laws of physics don’t care about your feelings. Or that you tried super hard. Or about your race. There’s a correct answer and an incorrect answer. Fail to get the correct answer and consequences ensue. No amount of feel-good hippie crap will alter the laws of physics.
There is nothing wrong with teaching multiple methids to solve problems. There is nothing wrong with advocating one method over the others.
What is wrong is creating an entire generation of people who can’t count change and failing to recognize that there is a problem.
The whole idea that the right answer is unimportant smells like the “soft bigotry of low expectations”.
So, if you compute your spacecraft’s trajectory to orbit Saturn
and it hits Uranus instead, that’s ok?
these are the people he wants to design and make his drugs...
Don’t believe ANYTHING from the VERY RACIST Population Control crowd!
Which of the six dozen genders is Math?
You know that’ll be next.
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