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.”
I seem to recall a black nationalist claiming that Africans were well advanced in math and science when Europeans were still in the dark ages.
Don’t forget bridges, because AA worked so well in the Florida case.
“... 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....”
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I’m guessing by “individualism” they mean the ability to solve mathematical problems without requiring others to give you the answers. Calling this ability to correctly solve problems by yourself RACIST is ridiculous, of course.
IMHO, the purpose of DEFINING consideration of individual competencies as “racist” is to LEGALLY prohibit hiring/promotion of INCOMPETENT individuals IF THEY ARE A “PROTECTED” CLASS member.
Isn’t saying black people are too stupid to do math or to get ID, or to be skills or knowledge or merit tested in any way or to do anything that white people are just naturally able to do autonomically without study or training not just implies but outright screams at volume 11 that black people are inferior?
It is like the entire white race are like annoying Mary Sue type characters like Rey from star wars or wesley crusher from star trek who just automatically know how to do everything and with no training can defeat masters who have had a lifetime of training, and rather than using their innate talents for the betterment of mankind, they just sit around coming up with new and improved ways to keep black people down
How would you like to drive over a bridge designed by one of these woke math graduates?
When the airplanes start falling out of the sky, they will just say that Gravity is racist because Sir Isaac Newton is racist.
Here’s an example what such ill-education produces even for the academic world. The legal (liberal arts & humanities) academic world showing physics & mathematics envy.
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The stupid thinking they’re smart !
https://pjmedia.com/blog/frank-j-tipler/2010/02/07/obama-vs-einstein-n14510
Well, there was that pedestrian overpass in Florida thata collapsed into traffic, designed by an all female group IIRC.
You’re using outliers as examples of the norm.
Why is Europe like Europe and Africa like Africa?
Is the Bell Curve real?
Very good...
There already is a race war.
There’s no black people in Boston.
No math skills? No jobs in computing, welding, plumbing, painting, cashiering, etc.
In short, no jobs for you since jobs are symbols of white supremacy.
finding the right answer is a symbol of white supremacy.
So is finding a job. Are these poor students being relegated to work as field hands?
For shame..
They should just dissolve mathematics. Just teach kids how to live under bridges, how to hunt bears, how to survive off roots/berries, and how to find safe spaces.
Such a thought is anathema to any civilization. It appears then, that the students
will be condemned to living outside civilization. Nice going, Democrats.
It all depends on when you took Algebra II, Calc I and Calc II. Think he also had to take “Statics” (not statistics) before Calc III.
So people literally want to be stupid
Asking for a friend
I advocate for charges of Child Abuse!
If I was a person of color I would be furious at this.
Bridge and rocket designers.
Wait! Didn’t I already make a joke on this subject?
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