How do you "appropriate" math?
And exactly how is it being used to "oppress and marginalize" POCs?
Let's have some specific examples.
These entirely reasonable and appropriate questions are never asked by journalists.
You either "get" math or you don't - and lefties want to tell us math is "racist" b/c not everyone understands it.
“how is it being used to “oppress and marginalize” POCs?”
Answer: Low IQ folks can’t figure it out...
If everyone was stupid then we could have the real “equity” the leftists desire.
The lack of blacks in the field is proof enough. /sarc
But yes, specific examples of how the same test given to black and white students is somehow unfair to the black student but not the white student.
What no one cares to admit that public schools that black students tend to be in are bad schools (and Democrat run) and that American black culture as a whole does NOT value education because that would be "acting white."
“How do you “appropriate” math?”
Everything is appropriated. It is done to fit the societal needs of a given area. Roads are not built to end in the woods if there is nothing to gain from it. We buy liquids based upon the appropriate size needed like milk, bottled water and the cost of consumption rather than a set price for it’s use. I don’t have a pool. Should I pay the same price as the Venetian for water every month? This is how free enterprise works and in the end separates itself from the forms of government control used by the countries we left and made us the most powerful overall country on the rock. We do it better because we think, not follow all the time.
Years ago the “experts” decided they needed to teach kids how to think about complex problems. But everything in life is not E=MC2 and provided in theory only like that formula. (And we’re still not quite sure if that is correct as no one has gone the speed of light consistently and energy fluctuates)
So math switched from computation to theory. And suddenly simple related math questions became so complex that training became the practice to come up with a questionable answer. 1 + 1 disappeared. And I am amazed at how difficult it is for people to count back basic change of a dollar at the restaurant. And giving them a $20 bill plus a penny for a $10.01 price and they need grief counselling. Just another step closer to the corral for the cattle that at some point will be slaughtered.
And I can’t wait till someone brings up reading skills. According to a recent study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education in 2016, 19 percent of high school graduates are functionally illiterate, which means they can’t read well enough to manage daily living and perform tasks required by many jobs.
Now you might say that was 6 years ago. According to Lifeskills 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2023. (Losing found) Then some might say it is the influx of immigrants. Same study said only 34% of that 21% number who lack proficiency in literacy were born outside the US. Don’t hold water.
Mathematics is a skill required to survive in certain needs. Communication is a much bigger need on the pie chart. To get a measured glass of water you need first to tell someone you’re thirsty that owns the well. And numbers need to be read and understood just like the ABC’s.
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To”get math” you have to do the homework. If you don’t work the problems (all of them) you’re lost