Posted on 10/23/2019 8:40:01 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Seattle Public Schools Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee (ESAC) released a rough draft of notes for its Math Ethnic Studies framework in late September, which attempts to connects math to a history of oppression.
The framework is broken into four different themes: “Origins, Identity, and Agency,” “Power and Oppression,” “History of Resistance and Liberation,” and “Reflection and Action.”
The committee suggests that math is subjective and racist, saying under one section, “Who gets to say if an answer is right,” and under another, “how is math manipulated to allow inequality and oppression to persist?”
Jason Rantz of KTTH in Seattle noted that, “ESAC is made up of a number of educators and was created due to a legislature mandate to ‘advise, assist, and make recommendations to the office of the superintendent of public instruction regarding the identification of ethnic studies materials.'”
It is also stated in the document that Western mathematics is “used to disenfranchise people and communities of color.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
'Close enough'.
I’d credit those claims a little more if I even suspected the people making them could...do math.
If there was no such thing as math, there'd be no such thing as racism.
If there was no such thing as math, there'd be no way to calculate whether or not the Earth is warming.
Therefore, ban math and racism and Global Warming will disappear!
Woo hoo! You're welcome, Earth!
Now, where'd I leave muh beer?
It’s not a math thread without this, Ma and Pa Kettle do math,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdPmzWd8bg
Proving that math is indeed diverse.
2+2=racist
Math its origins are commerce!
Capitalism Baby!
The above is a fascinating book to read !
Indeed!
The kicker is, these people don’t really believe math is inherently racist.
They have adopted this position to further their aims of Social Revolution. Because they know the people who will be most incensed by the concept are those too stupid to know it’s BS.
It’s been a while, but my sharp memory recalls that in very integrated schools, exactly ONE black student (a young woman named Bernadette) was in a math class, from 8th grade on. Are we to believe that this was because the school system did not allow minority students to take Algebra, etc.?
Public schools “oppress” minority children if they do not require them to master basic skills such as arithmetic before leaving elementary school, then mathematics at appropriate ages.
The “oppression” is the dumbing down of courses year after year after year to accommodate the most stupid students. This hits minorities the hardest and they can spend an entire year on something as simple as “one-half” and not master it. My sister has been teaching middle school math for almost 45 years and she has seen this up close.
Math is just numbers
What could possibly be racist about (9-4.5 = fo fiddy)
The city should be sued to stop them from using the terms schools and teachers.
Ma and Pa Kettle do math. Beautiful, just a beautiful example of just how far ahead they were in “new math!”
Thank you!
Maybe after all this being dumb is racist.
You have to be absolutely kidding!
“......Furthermore, under this criteria students will analyze the ways in which “ancient mathematical knowledge has been appropriated by Western culture,” and “identify how math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.”.......”
So if modern manufacturing techniques require statistical quality control..............these idiots want to make sure the US citizens will not be able to compete in a global market. Like that is going to help raise living standards among communities of color.
Do they realize that much of modern mathematics is really from Arab origins? We use Arabic numbers not Roman Numerals, right?
This is such utter rubbish.
Seattle has been Africanized
Robert Mugabe would be proud
“........This is for a social studies class.....The actual high school math curriculum addressees the usual algebra, geometry, calculus and statistics............”
Thank you, perhaps I over reacted to what I read, but still it is stupid, even for social studies.
Mathematics is not racist because it is based on reality. Like every other science, mathematics applies to reality because it is derived from our observations or reality. It is a valid objective conceptualization of facts, which are ultimately reducible to observed similarities and differences.
Only for very large values of 2. ;-P
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