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Hundreds of college professors blast ‘woke’ math movement
NY Post ^ | 12/7/21 | Selim Algar

Posted on 12/09/2021 10:32:30 AM PST by workerbee

Hundreds of prominent professors — including top names from CUNY, NYU, and Columbia — have signed a letter blasting the erosion of math rigor in grades K to 12.

Arguing that curtailing advanced math programs puts American kids at a global disadvantage, the coalition called the movement “the height of irresponsibility.”

A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.

The teachers — including two CUNY professors, nine from Columbia University, and 13 from NYU — argued that kids need exposure to advanced math prior to college in order to truly excel.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; k12; math; wokemath
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“Is math racist?’ The wheezing society asked, as it cratered towards utter collapse,” Erielle Davidson, a senior policy analyst at The Jewish Institute for National Security of America tweeted.
1 posted on 12/09/2021 10:32:30 AM PST by workerbee
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Hundreds of college professors blast ‘woke’ math movement

They'll have to go.

2 posted on 12/09/2021 10:34:24 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: workerbee

It’s pretty sad that every math teacher in the USA didn’t sign it. Apparently most math teachers are fine with it.


3 posted on 12/09/2021 10:34:27 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: workerbee

These professors will be cancelled


4 posted on 12/09/2021 10:36:42 AM PST by Lee25 ( )
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To: workerbee

Sometimes the left strays from their Nazi blueprint and take on certain Soviet tendencies. This whole woke “scientific” movement is nothing more than American Soviet Lysenkoism.


5 posted on 12/09/2021 10:39:02 AM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: workerbee

“Woke math”, yet another reason the Chinese will eat our lunch.


6 posted on 12/09/2021 10:39:04 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: workerbee

Did hell just freeze over? it’s only 35 deg outside...


7 posted on 12/09/2021 10:40:27 AM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: workerbee

The principle of “objective proof” is incomprehensible, or overtly rejected, by many. 2+2=5. They love Big Brother.


8 posted on 12/09/2021 10:40:53 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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To: workerbee

Should be a lot more than hundreds.

...But these days, I welcome everyone we can get!


9 posted on 12/09/2021 10:41:17 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: mylife

F these people who support CRT and woke BS...

...UNTIL IT DIRECTLY AFFECTS THEM


10 posted on 12/09/2021 10:42:02 AM PST by BuckeyeGOP ( )
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To: workerbee

If you “feel” that 2+2=5, then it is. Only an absolutist would say that it has to be 4.


11 posted on 12/09/2021 10:42:19 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Steely Tom
They'll have to go.

To be replaced by who?
These are the top math professors in the top universities.
You can't replace them with CRT hustlers from BLM.

12 posted on 12/09/2021 10:44:20 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: workerbee

Should be THOUSANDS of Professors!!


13 posted on 12/09/2021 10:45:24 AM PST by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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Math can be racist because mathematical laws are not set in stone, as Abbott and Costello proved that proved 7 X 13=28. Just think of how White supremacists can use math to keep the "Homies" down. /s
14 posted on 12/09/2021 10:45:47 AM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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they’re gonna get woke right out of their jobs... they should all feel insulted let alone angry


15 posted on 12/09/2021 10:45:51 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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16 posted on 12/09/2021 10:46:13 AM PST by workerbee (==)
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To: Seruzawa

I wouldn’t care if these were all people destined to be the French Fry guy at BK, or a septic tank ‘technician’, or minister.

But the minute you say it’s in the nursing field, trucking field, anything to do with chemicals, or carpentry...you can’t weaken math skills.

Maybe it’s time to just write an exit for high school kids at the 8th grade and tell them their destiny in life....won’t require much in terms of skills (math or otherwise).


17 posted on 12/09/2021 10:47:18 AM PST by pepsionice
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I have an experience. My organization is regulatory financial organization. A team lead who is black came up to me for a question. How to compute change of value in %? For example 56 change 75 what is percentage of change? He knows how to get change 75-56 = 19 but don’t know how to get percentage change. I swear to God. It’s true story. He is a team lead of financial organization! But he is extremely articulate and speaks very well. I’m not English speaker but to me, his talk is excellent.


18 posted on 12/09/2021 10:49:09 AM PST by Lee25 ( )
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Apparently most math teachers are fine with it.

Quite seriously, public school math teachers barely take real mathematics courses in college, at least not the courses for mathematicians, engineers and scientists. Those with education degrees really have degrees in indoctrination. This is how indoctrination works. All those with MathEd degrees go around convinced they have unquestionable knowledge. That is a case of a big fish in a small pond. They have been indoctrinated into thinking they are some kind of expert in mathematics when all they have is an education degree.

I personally watched "slower" people drop out of rigorous mathematics courses and majors when I was in college 40 years ago. The progression goes: start as a math major, if you can't hack it, then become a Math Ed major. If you can't hack that, then become an El Ed major with a concentration in bulletin boards.

19 posted on 12/09/2021 10:50:48 AM PST by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: Steely Tom

They are no longer needed anyway.


20 posted on 12/09/2021 10:51:27 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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