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Is math education racist? Debate rages over changes to how US teaches the subject
Yahoo! News ^ | December 7, 2021 | Gary Stern

Posted on 12/07/2021 9:21:13 PM PST by Trump20162020

As many students of color struggle with the subject, schools are altering instruction - sometimes amid intense debate.

Students practice equations through singing, dancing and drawing. Activities are sculpted around their hobbies and interests: anime, gaming, Minecraft. Problem-solving is a team sport, rather than an individual sprint to the right answer.

Ebri, a math teacher and tech specialist for Duval County Schools in Florida, is using new techniques designed to promote equity. If kids of color, girls and low-income students engage, they'll be more likely to pursue high-level math classes, the argument goes. That can open doors to competitive colleges and lucrative careers.

After Ebri switched to emphasizing real-world problems and collaboration, her students, most of whom are Black, improved their scores on Florida's math exam in 2020-21 – even with 1 in 3 learning from home.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: math
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1 posted on 12/07/2021 9:21:13 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Math is important to know else you might get ripoed off on your next crack buy.


2 posted on 12/07/2021 9:29:47 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: Trump20162020

Why don’t they stop teaching math? It’s racist to teach any subject except CRT.


3 posted on 12/07/2021 9:30:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Trump20162020

It does make sense, with some of my math classes I brought in extra topics to make it interesting to those students who were interested but, it is not true that singing and team problem solving are always going to inspire students who don’t “get it”.

The most important function of a teacher is to discover why a student does not understand a subject, and find a way to make that student make sense of the issue to their own understanding.

I am talking about kids in high school who are struggling with some very basic math concepts, they would not respond well to my introducing a lesson with a song. Would they?

Recall the teacher who suggested a trig pnumonic which sounded like an Indian chant and was repremanded for appropriation of another’s culture (SOHCAHTOA; Sine Opposite over Hypotenuse, Cosine Adjacent over Hypotenuse, Tangent Opposite over adjacent)


4 posted on 12/07/2021 9:36:50 PM PST by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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To: KC_for_Freedom
Recall the teacher who suggested a trig pnumonic which sounded like an Indian chant [...]

Huh?!

Regards,

5 posted on 12/07/2021 9:41:11 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Trump20162020
Complete tripe. The problem some have with math is they lack parents that give two shits. A lot of times they don't even know who their father is. They receive zero encouragement at home and are taught that math is somehow white.. These people are so far removed from what really matters in Western Civilization that they can't find the trust that entire worlds will be available if they just put in the effort to learn.

If you want a not so radical solution here is one that works. It certainly not radical compared to all the bull crap that they try now and waste taxpayer dollars on. The solution is to forbid them educations. Take it all away and stop wasting money.

If you look at some of the most educationally motivated cultures in the world, they have once been denied the right to be educated. There was a time in our nation when freed men did everything in their power to get educated. They started their own school and colleges, just because they were once denied as slaves to learn. They lost that somehow as families were no longer important.

Deny them educations and they will eventually find a way to teach themselves. Defund government schools. It will create a Renaissance in education. It would be a blessing to whites as well.

6 posted on 12/07/2021 9:46:17 PM PST by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: Trump20162020

Life applications in learning math will be more useful to the majority of students who will never, ever have to figure out how fast a bathtub with a hole will fill up or when two trains will pass the same point from different distances and at different rates of speed.


7 posted on 12/07/2021 9:48:08 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Trump20162020

Ultimately, there can be only one … correct answer.


8 posted on 12/07/2021 9:52:03 PM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow. )
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To: Captain Rhino

Go for it. Intelligent parents will teach
their children. When a job comes up that
requires math skills...guess who gets hired?


9 posted on 12/07/2021 9:58:08 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Trump20162020
Ebri, a math teacher and tech specialist for Duval County Schools in Florida, is using new techniques designed to promote equity. If kids of color, girls and low-income students engage, they'll be more likely to pursue high-level math classes, the argument goes.

This is all utter bullshit, but this charlatan will milk a career from it. America's bloated leftist bureaucracies create their own religious dogma (in other words, LIES) which they believe, and they expect you to believe.

10 posted on 12/07/2021 9:58:12 PM PST by PGR88
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The world is laughing at us.


11 posted on 12/07/2021 10:02:16 PM PST by nbenyo
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To: Captain Rhino

Math is best taught while the teacher and students are all TWIRKING! The results are……. “equitable”.


12 posted on 12/07/2021 10:02:32 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: Myrddin
When a job comes up that requires math skills...guess who gets hired?

And when a job comes up that requires CRT skills and a degree in Grievance Studies, and when the hiring company needs to fulfill some of its racial/gender quotas...

Regards,

13 posted on 12/07/2021 10:06:03 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

Mnemonic?


14 posted on 12/07/2021 10:08:37 PM PST by thecodont
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To: alexander_busek; KC_for_Freedom
>> Recall the teacher who suggested a trig pnumonic which sounded like an Indian chant [...]

> Huh?!

Just when I thought I'd seen every goofy voice-to-text mistake:

mnemonic -> pnumonic
takes the cake.
15 posted on 12/07/2021 10:11:18 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Trump20162020

not new trans math!!


16 posted on 12/07/2021 10:12:41 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: Trump20162020

I don’t mind different methods to get students engaged with doing mathematics provided they are taught that there is indeed a right answer and getting to that is important.


17 posted on 12/07/2021 10:12:55 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: skr

:)


18 posted on 12/07/2021 10:14:36 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: Trump20162020

Math takes a discipline to follow the rules. Those without discipline will fail to use math as the great tool it is meant to be.


19 posted on 12/07/2021 10:19:07 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: skr
Life applications in learning math will be more useful to the majority of students who will never, ever have to figure out how fast a bathtub with a hole will fill up

Perhaps some people just don't have the intelligence to abstract. Others are not taught how to recognize the abstraction. Most will never use the math in real life. Perhaps they shouldn't be taught math at that level at all. Colleges are filled with people who absolutely have no business being there based on their lack of ability and intelligence. There are other worthy pursuits that do not require math beyond basic arithmetic and algebra.

20 posted on 12/07/2021 10:26:35 PM PST by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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