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Prof: Algebra, geometry perpetuate white privilege
Campus Reform ^ | October 23, 2017 | Toni Airaksinen

Posted on 10/23/2017 6:06:15 AM PDT by C19fan

A math education professor at the University of Illinois argued in a newly published book that algebraic and geometry skills perpetuate “unearned privilege” among whites.

Rochelle Gutierrez, a professor at the University of Illinois, made the claim in a new anthology for math teachers, arguing that teachers must be aware of the “politics that mathematics brings” in society.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: academicbias; college; education; illinois; math; mathematics; mathteachers; professor; racism; rochellegutierrez; teachers; university
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks. I was actually thinking to myself after I reread my version that the last one should have involved feelings and emotion, as opposed to thoughts and opinion. Your “touchy, feely” version is better.


121 posted on 10/23/2017 10:22:25 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: reformedliberal; Covenantor

“Nepantla is a Nahuatl word which means “in the middle of it” or “middle.” Wikipedia”

“...a Nahuatl (Aztec language) term connoting in between or a reference to the space of the middle.”

You mean like the space left in the middle of a slave after the Aztec priest cuts out his beating heart, and then proceeds to sell the body to the meat markets? That kind of cultural/educational strategy?


122 posted on 10/23/2017 10:23:39 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: ETL

Right triangle assumed, same as needed for the equation to work.


123 posted on 10/23/2017 10:28:59 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: ETL

Really, you can do these algebra equations in your head.


124 posted on 10/23/2017 10:33:29 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69
Thanks. Too tired to think it through right now.

In any case, I found these related Q&As...

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How do you find the hypotenuse using trigonometry?

The cosine ratio can be used to calculate the length of one of the shorter sides (legs) of a right triangle, or to find the length of the hypotenuse. In both cases you need to know the cosine ratio for one of the smaller angles. If you are finding an unknown leg length, then the hypotenuse must be known.
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How do you find the hypotenuse of a right triangle?

The hypotenuse is always opposite the right angle and it is always the longest side of the triangle. To find the length of leg a, substitute the known values into the Pythagorean Theorem. Solve for a^2.
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How do you find the hypotenuse of a triangle using angles?

To find the length of the adjacent side when the length of the hypotenuse and an angle are known, use the cosine of the angle. The length of the adjacent side is 3.277’, or 3’ 3 5/16”. Find the lengths of the two unknown sides (the angle given is the reference angle for the side).

https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&q=determine+hypotenuse+trigonometry&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5m_nBxIjXAhUD1CYKHU27DwAQvwUIJSgA&biw=1099&bih=554

Image result

125 posted on 10/23/2017 10:40:04 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: doorgunner69
you can do these algebra equations in your head.

Seems to me they're asking for the intercept coordinate points for the two straight lines/linear equations.

Of course you'd first have to solve all for Y first.


126 posted on 10/23/2017 10:44:00 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: doorgunner69

...or, you can simply solve for Y then substitute the Y value into the X = equation to find X.


127 posted on 10/23/2017 10:51:05 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: ETL

Substitute Y from the first equation into the second is the way I did it in my head, (but the other direction would work as well) and solve for X. Insert the result into the first equation and solve for Y.


128 posted on 10/23/2017 10:53:10 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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http://www.montereyinstitute.org/courses/DevelopmentalMath/COURSE_TEXT2_RESOURCE/U19_L1_T2_text_final.html


129 posted on 10/23/2017 10:53:29 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Architect of Avalon
All of these claims willfully ignore an intelligent, hardworking, successful minority called Asians.

:Yes indeed.

130 posted on 10/24/2017 8:05:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: BlessedBeGod
Then maybe she shouldn't be a math professor because she's enabling "unearned privilege."

She's a math education prof, teaching students to teach math. Once removed from real work.

131 posted on 10/24/2017 8:07:21 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: HapaxLegamenon
Professor: “There is no objective truth.”

Student: “Is that true?”

Professor: “Absolutely.”

LOL!

132 posted on 10/24/2017 8:16:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: ETL

I hope I didn’t overstep. I enjoyed the entire thing that you posted.


133 posted on 10/24/2017 5:40:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Not at all, FRiend. :)

In Lib Land, emotion always takes precedence over thinking.


134 posted on 10/24/2017 6:08:20 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia-US collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR page)
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To: Rummyfan

She's a math education prof, teaching students to teach math. Once removed from real work.

Thank you for the correction. That does make a difference.

135 posted on 10/25/2017 3:25:40 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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To: Bodega

An MD is not as you describe it. Don’t know where or how you got your information but it is incorrect. One has a bachelor degree in something and then applie to go to medical school....true for veterinary school as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Medicine

Then MDs usually do a specialty along with an internship. Sitting for licensure is a whole different issue


136 posted on 10/27/2017 7:24:26 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Rummyfan

Math education instructors can harm real mathematics work by training math students poorly, and education bureaucrats can cause the same problem by adding ideology.


137 posted on 03/28/2023 11:10:07 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: VanShuyten

A made up word

Nepantla is a concept used in Chicano and Latino anthropology, social commentary, criticism, literature and art. It represents a concept of “in-between-ness.” Nepantla is a Nahuatl word which means “in the middle of it” or “middle.” It may refer specifically to the space between two figurative or literal bodies of water. In contemporary usage, Nepantla often refers to being between two cultures, particularly one’s original culture and the dominant one. It usually refers to a position of perspective, power, or potential, but it is sometimes used to designate a state of pain or loss.
Wikipedia


138 posted on 03/29/2023 12:57:03 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Pythagoras was black

O'Riley?
Maybe we was one of those Kangs !

LMAO  :-))

139 posted on 03/29/2023 7:57:59 AM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: C19fan

Perhaps this is a joke, like this:

In 1982, when Irigaray’s essay first appeared, this was an incisive criticism: differential topology has traditionally privileged the study of what are known technically as ``manifolds without boundary’’. However, in the past decade, under the impetus of the feminist critique, some mathematicians have given renewed attention to the theory of ``manifolds with boundary’’ [Fr. variétés à bord]. Perhaps not coincidentally, it is precisely these manifolds that arise in the new physics of conformal field theory, superstring theory and quantum gravity.

from Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity by Alan D. Sokal
https://web.archive.org/web/20170519124532/http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair


140 posted on 03/29/2023 3:33:58 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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