Posted on 10/24/2017 5:30:28 PM PDT by cq
A math education professor at the University of Illinois says the ability to solve geometry and algebra problems and teaching such subjects perpetuates so-called white privilege.
Rochelle Gutierrez laid out her views on the subject in an article for a newly published anthology for math educators titled, “Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods.”
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So let’s all just be stupid.
Is he insinuating that black people are too stupid to learn? That’s racist!
In other words...keep em stupid and on the plantation
These lefty punks are dumbing down American kids.
Math can lead to real privilege, opening access to all sorts of careers, whatever your racial makeup.
Competition for your satire crown? Hard to do satire with stuff like this out there.
Like I said before, the democrats want to dumb down education so that everyone will be stupid enough to vote for them!
Yeah exactly.
These illiberal “liberals” are pushing stereotypes about black people that are crueler than most of what ordinary white society has EVER come up with about black people.
When are they going to look at themselves in a mirror ?!?
Yes, yes, I know, the bell curve and all. Which biases the distribution, and maybe it really IS true that we have more white mathematicians per capita than black mathematicians.
And exactly what should that have to do with a society of black and white people being able to live harmoniously? Exactly nothing, as far as I can see with my beady little redneck brain. I don’t go out there telling folks that if you ain’t a math major you ain’t s-—. If I did that to the contractors, both black and white, that I meet daily at the KFC where I have been eating (rednecks of all colors know where good food is), they’d pummel me into the ground! Well at least, with a look. What we don’t get in mathematicians we get in carpenters, plumbers, etc. All generally honest, stouthearted guys.
a “math education professor”. So not a “math professor” Yep, that would explain her stoopidity index going off the chart.
calculus.
Oh she may know tensor calculus out the yin yang. That’s not the issue.
The issue is these stupid generalizations.
A society needs people of various skills and experiences. And being in a rarefied intellectual echelon doesn’t make a body all-wise. I remember the comment made by Dr. Louis Pasteur that he wished he had as much faith as a lowly Breton woman. And yet he still was a vessel of God’s blessings to the world.
Maybe the bifecta would be to be, like me, a high tech redneck. I can go low and I can go high and carry the blessing of the Lord either way. But that’s rare. And it also tends to get you special attention from Satan... I can tell about it.
2+2=you’re racist.
Time to shut these socialists and perpetual victims down permanently.
Phoney elitists wouldn’t get nearly so far if the REAL elite and the REAL rednecks would both unite in razzberries towards them.
Algebra and Math came from the Mediterranean region. We are using math developed over 5000 years by people of many colors and cultures. So that is how absurd this statement is, that only white privileged people can do math.....
Just goes to show you, a person can be smart in math and dumb as a post in other areas.
Differential Equations, Fourier Analysis, Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, statics, statistics and so on and so on
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