UPDATE: It has come to our attention that a leading candidate for president’s team has Tweeted out a resource that was published under our previous company and the content was edited and removed 8 years ago. Why or how it is recirculating now is unclear. When I was still a classroom teacher 10 years ago, I was concurrently teaching Algebra 1 and a seminar on Human Trafficking at the new International High School. Ohio is hub of human trafficking and 1 and 5 girls are victims of sexual assault prior to the age of 18. In collaboration, with local human trafficking they sought to destigmatize sexual abuse, create awareness, and deromanticize words like “pimp”. Additionally at the International school hoped we could infuse more international content throughout their curriculum. Generally, this meant I as the math teacher created deep dives with international data or international issues, but we also created Person Puzzles and Adventure activities to help do this. This Maya Angelous worksheet is an example of a quick surface level infusion, and I wrote 300 “Person Puzzles” about different people as a quick practice activity. In this particular case it was paired with Systems of Equations which is a topic encountered by 14-16 year old students — students that are the prime age to be victims (or perpetrators) of sexual violence.
So what if it was 8 years ago. It had nothing to do with math. He took it upon himself to inject his views on social issues into algebra.
"Students are curious about people. Person Puzzles are created with diversity in mind. Diversity in race, nationality, gender & thought. This aims to reflect the diversity of our students and encourage perspective taking. Moreso, it shows the impact a single person can make on the world."The 21st Century Math Projects – Immersive Classroom Culminating Activities Update appears to be gaslighting.
The purpose of teaching a math course is to teach math. Any included history (or "person puzzle") should be about the history (or mathematicians) involved in the specific math subject being taught, and NOT woketardian diversity propaganda or instruction about current or historical persons having nothing to do with the specific mathematics being taught.
