Posted on 02/14/2021 6:58:51 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
The Oregon Department of Education is promoting a program for teachers that seeks to “disman[tle] racism in mathematics,” alleging that focusing on finding the right answer is a symbol of white supremacy.
Fox News reported that the ODE sent out a newsletter last week that mentions a “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course” that will occur on February 21. The course, according to Fox, is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for ‘dismantling racism in mathematics.’”
The newsletter encourages teachers to sign up for the training, which the New York Post previously reported includes a section with 14 things associated with “White Supremacy Culture,” including perfectionism, objectivity, and individualism.
Objectivity is described the workbook accompanying the training as “the belief that there is such a thing as being objective or ‘neutral.'” The program’s toolkit also encourages teachers not to focus on a single correct answer, but to “come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem” and to “Challenge standardized test questions by getting the ‘right’ answer, but justify other answers by unpacking the assumptions that are made in the problem.”
The toolkit also asks instructors to “center ethnomathematics” in multiple ways, one of which is to “identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”
Liberals cant have this and STEM. Why not raise a crop of wicked smart mathematicians.
Exactly.
How can one be sure that there really is income inequality, or racial disparity, or even Global Warming, if math is racist or subjective, and there are actually multiple correct answers to any given math problem?
By way of example, determining whether the globe has warmed depends on subtracting recent temperatures from historic temperatures and looking at the sign and magnitude of the resulting difference. This is a math problem - but if White Math is racist, and therefore not to be used, how is a determination to be made? One can no longer criticize the “deniers”, because their answer becomes just as valid as anyone else’s - right?
The real problem here is philosophical. Most people have no knowledge of the elementary distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge. One is obvious logically and the other is derived from experience.
One is deductive and the other is inductive, if you prefer.
2 + 2 can never, ever equal 5, no matter how many times you hear it or see it written or look at actual objects to try to make it different.
A 75% sales tax is equitable, 6% is racist.
Government god smiles.
Bridges
Airplanes
Boats
Antennas/towers
Washing machines
Microwaves
Let us see how long the IRS goes along with this idiocy.
Gravitational Force = mass x 9.8m/sec^2
Woke states can skip the above.
Weed doing it’s # on Oregon liberal teachers union.
Fox News reported that the ODE sent out a newsletter last week...Was that news letter written in english or ebonics?
Because if it was in english it would be racist and white supremacy.
Sadly there is a mindset of many in the black culture that acting/being smart is acting/being “white”. Speaking proper English is speaking “white”.
Problem is, is that these idiots are serious.
Completely insane. God obviously didn’t make us all the same and the liberal fidiots are having none of that.
The laws of physics do not care about your feelings
“Oregon Promotes Program Focused On ‘Dismantling Racism In Mathematics,’ Says Finding The Right Answer A Sign Of White Supremacy”
Oregon Promotes Program Focused On ‘Dismantling stupidity in government,’ Says Finding White Supremacy in Mathematics is a sign of complete idiocy
There, fixed it
The Arabs stole algebra, as well as the numerals, from the Indians.
And there are non-blacks subscribing to this black culture as well. It’s not really black culture, it’s actually something else.
Somewhere the KKK smiles !
“a posteriori knowledge”
That reads more like pulling it out of your butt, so to speak.
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