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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Perhaps this “educator” should be told that the founder of Geometry - Euclid of Alexandria - was born in Africa, and the founder of algebra - Al Khwarezmi - was born in Central Asia.
in other words, Ms. Guiterrez wants to be paid to teach a class that teaches nothing
Does she understand that every brick, every window, every stairway, every roof and every wall of her school could not have been built without math, including algebra and geometry?
Excuse me, isn’t the word “algebra” derived from Arabic. Oh, and our number system, based on Hindoo base 10 notation, for some reason called “Arabic numbers”.
What about astronomy? Most named stars have Arabic names. Look at the 57 navigational star names: https://namingschemes.com/57_Selected_Stars_for_Navigation
Are astronomy and navigation racist?
The division of circle into 360 degrees? The division of time into minutes and seconds? The invention of trigonometry? Babylonian. 24 hours in a day? Egyptian.
The woman is a profound ass.
Irony is that those who make such claims haven't the brainpower to understand what they are really saying....
Of course you know this is the aim of education, but the basics still need to be there, and taught well by people who know what they are teaching.
You don’t want a teacher who just barely made it through, and it helps to have some teachers who deeply love the subjects for which they are primarily responsible.
think about that science teacher who worked the experiments in front of the class and almost got lost in what he was doing. (Was it always a male? back then, probably but not for any racist reason, just that males were more involved in science — and even though we have had years of urging females, males still dominate.
Surprise, I too made it through calculus and I would say just barely but by going back into HS as a teacher, I found that over time I became better and better at the problems. After 10 years I was not even challenged by the math in the GRE, I had taught the same problems for years and knew them backwards and forwards.
I would not say I lusted about this, but I realized the level of understanding simply is a function of how long one works with the stuff. Think about it, every so called genius in some field was initially a newbee. Eventually they became good at the material and then finally they became a world leader.
I don’t know if anyone thinks about math as a “pleasure”, probably some do, but the real pleasing sensation comes from looking at a problem and realizing it is something that you “know” how to solve.
For example, a contractor who works cutting molding eventually understands the intricacies of the angles that make pieces of wood fit. Chances are they did not get up one day and have it all fall into place (pun). But over time they got better and better until no one can even understand how their work is so precise.
So Jaime Escalante was pushing white privilege to his AP math students? Who knew? What a numbskull this woman is.
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