Posted on 08/05/2022 8:01:04 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
A leftist organization called “The Queer Mathematics Teacher” is seeking to embed gender theory in K-12 math classes.
Brandie Waid, the director of The Queer Mathematics Teacher, laid out a plan for incorporating gender theory into math classes in a blog post on the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) website. CASEL is sponsored by the Allstate Foundation.
The Queer Mathematics Teacher is an educational consulting firm that seeks to promote “queer mathematics” in American K-12 classrooms. The firm sells a book titled “Talking about LGBTQ+ Identity,” which includes chapters titled “The Gender Unicorn,” “How Do I Talk About LGBTQ+ Identity With My Students,” and “What if I Receive Pushback?”
The firm also offers coaching services to teachers, which include curriculum design, district-wide audits, and professional development workshops. The site claims, “The ability to consider sexuality irrelevant in the mathematics context is a heteronormatively privileged position” and notes that some areas of expertise include “queer pedagogy,” “teaching mathematics for social justice,” “Fostering Students’ Growth Mindset (While Advocating for Systemic Change),” and “humanizing Mathematics Education for LGBTQ+ Students.”
Waid confesses in her article that math used to be a source of anxiety for her, which she links with her sexuality. She writes, “I associated mathematics with profound anxiety, intricately tied to my fears of confronting my queer identity...”
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I prefer this acronym: DIE.
They forgot to include queer pederasty.
In queer math, 2+2=5.
What is juco calculus?
She figured out a way to get a good grade, without doing practice math/homework.
DIE works for me and junior college calculus
Thank God for DeSantis...
Sounds about right. I split my career between engineering and teaching, supposed to teach physics and chem, but math teachers were where the jobs were. Always included comp sci in my classes, because of my background. I loved to divert into discussions about the silicon valley computer businesses. The students seemed to like knowing where the high tech jobs were. But no off topic subjects like this thread is about.
In fact, in industry I was also selected to teach the aspects of management that my company felt to be essential. (How to make business decisions — how to trouble shoot a system Etc.) Again, did not delve into sexual harassment and such, but the company did have those classes too, only they brought in outsiders to do those required add ons.
The thing is, these make sense with classes of adults. I am not sure when it needs to be taught in earlier grades, but these days it is introduced too soon in my opinion.
I took the calculus courses during summer breaks. The teacher didn’t have a lot of time to chit chat. The engineering tech classes I took at the university did offer some career related chit chat.
You are correct. However, is math racist, sexist and homophobic? I’m not sure but when I need to make sure of the load of a wall in construction, I don’t care if the person is transgender, homosexual, black, I just want the walls to hold up when the roof gets put on. If a wall fails, the family will get hurt...
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