Posted on 04/02/2018 2:02:01 PM PDT by ethom
A Canadian high school switched to “Africentric Math” to attract black students to go into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math(STEM) fields, according to Canadian Broadcasting’s(CBC) Wednesday report.
Nova Scotia’s Auburn Drive High School math teachers are skipping their previous eurocentric approach to teaching mathematics so black students will gain more interest in the subject, the CBC reported. Teachers are adopting an Afrocentric lens to teach mathematics, based on incorporating African history and culture to make math classes resonate with their students.
Auburn High School is working with the Imphop’s Legacy Academy, a program encouraging black students to get interested in STEM, to craft their new curriculum. One example of the new approach is using Egyptian pyramids to explain trigonometry.
“It’s academic math, but we want to build their self-confidence, their self-awareness so they can feel that they’re capable of doing the math,” Auburn Drive High School Principal Karen Hudson said.
Temple University’s African Studies Chair Molefi Asante originally designed the Afrocentric movement in a book, “Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change,” published in 1980. He criticized the “Eurocentric” focus of education and instead encouraged academics to make lessons more relatable to African students. One example is teaching biology based on black biologist Ernest Just’s research over someone white, according to The American Prospect.
There are already 23 students who signed up to take the Afrocentric math class starting September 2018.
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I bought the Barbie that says “math is hard” but it still didn’t make learning advanced engineering math any easier.
So if Davvon has five rounds in his gat and has to bust a cap in the asses of eight mother******s then how many rounds does he need to steal?
Pick a number any number!
What be eleventy seven times fordiddly nine?..........
A 1 is a 1 is a 1. In Africa that rule applies as well...
4 to the Black Power?
Could someone give me an example of “afrocentric math”?
Anyone in academia who fails to applaud this with sufficient enthusiasm risks being denounced as a racist — the worst thing that could happen to a career.
http://moonbattery.com/canadian-school-teaches-africentric-math/
seven and elevens baby! no snake eyes...
Why does this sound like crappola psychobabble to me? Does 2 + 2 = 4 in afrocentric math, or is there a different outcome somehow? As Archie Bunker would say, “What’s the pernt?”
2 sticks plus mud equals a house
If you have to con them, then I don’t want them building the bridges we need across the country. I want competent people running the country and all the pieces parts.
The idea is to get black students to take STEM classes, so that they can take advantage of Affirmative Action to secure high-paying jobs.
http://moonbattery.com/canadian-school-teaches-africentric-math/
But if they can do the math, they don’t need affirmative action.............................
Trying to attract students to a particular field without being able to show them the benefits of that field is a waste of time. You don’t need to change the curriculum, you need to have teachers from the field that show the students its value.
The problem is, most teachers these days have useless degrees so they have no concept of what other majors are good for. Perhaps it’s different in Canada, but I doubt it.
I have an engineering degree and taugh briefly. Very briefly. I made a PowerPoint presentation to show my kids why math was so important. I had a list of all the different college majors. Well, most of them. Then we went through and ranked them according to what we thought salaries and the number of graduating job offers would be. Then I showed them what they really were, sorted in the spreadsheet. Then we went through and looked at which ones were math related. What a surprise, it was all the ones at the top!
All of a sudden, many of the kids wanted to major in those fields. I’m sure most of the other teachers have never showed them the value of studying whatever they were teaching them. Probably because the teachers had no clue.
Fi, LOL
I can’t wait until they get to Afrocentric electromagnetism and thermodynamics
you gotta play the numbers to hit the number...
2+2 = any damn thang I wan it to be muthaf*****!
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