White men can't do math (not my title)

email | By Craig J. Cantoni

[Aloysius88]

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[CzarNicky]

Juan de la Cierva, a Spaniard who designed airplanes in the early 20th century

Juan doesn't qualify as a white male?

[pabianice]

Dave Barry hammered this wonderfully several years ago. He wrote a "History of the World," which, not surprisingly, found that it was white Europeans who made all of the most important discoveries and inventions in the last 2,000 years. However, as a sop to the hate-filled, drool-spitting PC crowd, he ended each section with, "... Of course, during this time, women, gays, and people of color were also doing many exciting and important things..."

LOL!

[NavySEAL F-16]

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[BulletBobCo]

Reminds me of a joke.....
A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself, "Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven. Three plus six, that son of a bitch is nine...." His mother heard what he was saying and gasped, "What are you doing?" The little boy answered, "I'm doing my math homework, Mom." "And this is how your teacher taught you to do it?" the mother asked. "Yes," he answered. Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, "What are you teaching my son in math?" The teacher replied, "Right now, we are learning addition." The mother asked, "And are you teaching them to say two plus two, that son of a bitch is four?" After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered, "What I taught them was, two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four."

[Mr. K]

another good post

[kingu]

Yeah, I've seen this book - but what I have to question is that if it is a private school, why fall for the popular public school choice of getting new math books over and over again? What does this new textbook offer that one from the 1970's doesn't?

A cheaper option might be for the school to find a book from an era where they actually just taught math and have that book re-printed through one of the zillion small publishers out there. They'll get books that don't play political games, students can actually focus on math, and parents might actually have a chance to recognize what is being taught rather than getting high blood pressure from the other junk that is tossed in.

[gate2wire]

Of course, during this time, women, gays, and people of color were also doing many exciting and important things..."
LOL, will have to remember that.

[Echo Talon]

Watt, Volta, Tesla... any of those could be in there. Or even the Wright Bros., Burt Rutan? Kelly Johnson(Lockheed)... hmmmm

[kharaku]

Was this school ever confronted on this? Private schools can purchase other books.

[wideminded]

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), an Indian mathematician

I understand and agree with your main point, but mentioning Ramanujan is not so bad. He was an amazing genius on a world-class scale. The way in which he accomplished his work is also very inspirational.

[Echo Talon]

Thomas Alva Edison, Franklin?

[orionblamblam]

> A cheaper option might be for the school to find a book from an era where they actually just taught math and have that book re-printed through one of the zillion small publishers out there.

Small problem: copyright infringement.

[Billthedrill]

OK, that's funny. BTT.

[mattdono]

Hypatia

Isn't that a porn star?

[Echo Talon]

Daniel Hale William (1856-1931), an African-American heart surgeon

I don't get this one... Isn't this supposed to be a Math book?

[dawn53]

There are plenty of options from other sources other than the textbooks government schools use.

Homeschoolers use Saxon, Jacobs, Chalk-Dust videos, etc.

Not to mention mainstream homeschool texts like A Beka and Bob Jones.

Why use the texts the public schools are using anyway...they don't seem to be having such great success with them, so why would a private school even choose them?

Interesting enough, once the child gets to college and takes Calculus...all that's in the math book is math.

[snarks_when_bored]

Only one white male warrants a Biographical Note, and he can't be found until page 578. His name? Albert Einstein.

This is especially ironic since Einstein was not a mathematician, and, indeed, disliked mathematics. He was known to quip, "You know, once you start calculating, you sh*t yourself up before you know it."

[Muzzle_em]

Also, some schools have OLD books still in storage from way back when. Dig them out, dust them off, ignore the musty odor and actually learn math.