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Oregon Promotes Program Focused On ‘Dismantling Racism In Mathematics,’ Says Finding The Right Answer A Sign Of White Supremacy
Daily Wire ^ | Feb 13, 2021 | Ashe Schow

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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: blm; cancelculture; doublestandard; kook; mathforidiots; notthisagain; racism; realracism
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To: albie

Bridge and rocket designers.


121 posted on 02/14/2021 10:29:27 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789! )
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To: Keyhopper

Just yesterday in fact. 😁


122 posted on 02/14/2021 10:31:58 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have decided to reopen the Toy R Us chain. They going to rename it, We B Toys N Shit😂


123 posted on 02/14/2021 10:35:07 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: EEGator

Unfair! You added more companies to that list and I didn’t make jokes for them.


124 posted on 02/14/2021 10:36:30 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Mr. Mojo
At-Home Learning during the pandemic has proven promising. The brick-and-mortar public schools can now be used only for babysitting the unpromising children who have proven to lack Potential. Future leaders, managers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, will all receive their K-12 education online with hired tutors serving as coaches.

Brick-and-mortar K-12 will be used solely for indoctrination into voting Democratic, perfecting skills for service provision and strict obedience of their Superiors, the Elitists.

125 posted on 02/14/2021 10:55:16 AM PST by Thar U. Havit (Aye, Katie Scarlett, the only thing that lasts is the land!)
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To: Keyhopper

Now you have something to do for the remainder of the day...


126 posted on 02/14/2021 10:58:23 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Frohickey
And there are non-blacks subscribing to this black culture as well. It’s not really black culture, it’s actually something else.
Yea it's many other things.

One, the one that got whites to vote for Obama, is called white guilt.

127 posted on 02/14/2021 11:08:21 AM PST by lewislynn ( There is NO EVIDENCE of "widespread" Systemic Racism.)
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To: EEGator

Nah I gotta crank up the smoker. Making a couple of pounds of carmelized bacon and beef jerky.


128 posted on 02/14/2021 11:15:11 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Why don’t these leftist “educators” just come out and say that they think black students are too stupid to learn math? Either that, or that the teachers are too lazy or too stupid to teach it.


129 posted on 02/14/2021 12:07:24 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Mr. Mojo
“come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem"

Are they saying that there can be more than one way of achieving the correct answer (which is often true), or that there can be more than one correct answer (which in math is not true)?
130 posted on 02/14/2021 12:10:45 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Mr. Mojo
"but justify other answers by unpacking the assumptions that are made in the problem"

What possible assumptions in a math problem could have anything to do with race?
131 posted on 02/14/2021 12:14:17 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Mr. Mojo

I guess this is why we need to import so many Tech workers from India and elsewhere - the left has ruined our schools.


132 posted on 02/14/2021 12:15:40 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Mr. Mojo

Already in place. 2 + 2 = 5 if that is the group consensus ... check your, it’s already there.


133 posted on 02/14/2021 12:39:03 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

why should we even run public schools?

The Brits ...BTW did this to the Irish in the 1840’s..they prohibited Irish children from being educated-to make them dependent-keep them from rebelling against their English Masters

Same BS going on here


134 posted on 02/14/2021 12:44:22 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Oregon Promotes Program Focused On ‘Dismantling Racism In Mathematics,’ Says Finding The Right Answer A Sign Of White Supremacy...well, if only whites are supreme in finding the correct mathematic answers, so be it......
135 posted on 02/14/2021 12:59:17 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Frohickey

Nor does falling masonry from woke engineering projects.


136 posted on 02/14/2021 1:04:39 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Keyhopper

Feel free to send me the extra...


137 posted on 02/14/2021 1:17:54 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Mr. Mojo

LOL! That’ll be great for businesses that hire them.


138 posted on 02/14/2021 1:20:07 PM PST by familyop
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To: EEGator

I do not think the man I mentioned was an outlier. I have met too many of them. JMHO.

The reason Africa has remained stifled is that it only recently (in the last 150 years) was introduced to Christianity and ideas of western civilization.


139 posted on 02/14/2021 1:21:12 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (I do not regret my decision to cut all ties with Fox News. )
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To: alstewartfan

As long as the person being affected is somebody else, school teachers, administrators, and politicians are perfectly fine with going along with this nonsense. The only way to stop it is a stiff jolt of reality.

Here is a short parody video on alternative math that may point to the path of dealing with these persons and their enablers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw


140 posted on 02/14/2021 1:32:15 PM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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