Posted on 10/30/2017 9:22:55 AM PDT by C19fan
A group of professors argues in a newly-published book that math teachers must “live out social justice commitments” to fight privilege in the classroom.
The professors made the argument in a new anthology for math teachers, jointly authored by a trio of Mathematics Education professors: Pennsylvania State University’s Andrea McCloskey, Kennesaw State University Professor Brian Lawler, and Ohio State University Professor Theodore Chao.
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This is part of the reason why insanity like the flat-earth theory not only still exists, but is gaining believers.
They have no understanding of the math behind the physics proving a global earth, so it must be wrong in their minds.
I was terrible at math, but that was my fault, not classes being “inaccessible and oppressive”. You have to want to learn it, and they don’t want to.
They wouldn’t be if colleges were still allowing admission by MERIT rather than by ‘social justice’ standards.
They used to have people in colleges who could actually do math.
The American taxpayer dollars at work. This country is going down faster than I thought.
Some have a mind for math and some don’t. I don’t. Fortunately, I high 700d on the other side of those admission tests and fought my way through the only math class that was required. Does it really take all that much to admit that you have no talent for math? I suck at basketball also. I have a sneaky cut block.
“Remember when college was for smart people? “
Now it is just a participation trophy. Colleges have become nothing but diploma mills for money.
I would argue that these professors are committing treason against the US. If you want to cripple a nation’s defense capability, just cripple the education system’s ability to deliver high level math and science instruction. That will put the nation’s ability to design and develop new weapons at risk and make it vulnerable higher risk immigrants who actually worked hard to learn those skills. Many of those skills were acquired by foreign students right here in the US. I saw it happening when I was in college in the 70’s
Do these commies really think we are that stupid? Round them up and file charges against them TODAY!!!!!! It is high time we quit going easy on conspiracy to commit treason.
Economics and Finance Ph.D. programs are very mathematical.
Understanding stochastic difference equations and recursive methods is just the beginning.
Here is the SJW math course:
1. Only teach "even" numbers because everyone must be treated evenly.
2. There are no "odd" numbers because being called "odd" is public shaming.
3. Do not teach "irrational numbers." We must care for people who make poor choices.
4. Do not teach "squares." See #2 and public shaming.
5. Do not teach "roots." This is cultural appropriation.
6. Do not teach "pi." Children are starving in Biafra.
7. Do not teach "powers." The privileged elite are keeping the disadvantaged down.
8. Do not teach "limits." Everyone should have the right to reach their full potential.
9. Do not teach "inequalities." "Greater than" and "less than" only promotes bullying and low self-esteem.
10. Do not teach "zero." Everyone has value.
-PJ
When I took algebra in high school I did find it inaccessible and I did feel oppressed — just saying.
“Crush intelligence privilege! No one has the right to think about things we can’t understand!”
Soon only the vo/tech schools will be teaching math.
Future Democrat voters.
Until the left completely destroys those too.
Hand tools are symbols of “White Privilege” you know.
It seems to me that there are plenty of politicians that either failed math, never understood it or avoided it.
21056921=3
so why are these useless eaters taking the class if they don't want to learn the subject matter? oh, that's right, can't get the degree they don't deserve if they don't...
Share the pi!
“Not just Math, all science majors.”
I wonder if they’ll issue me a refund for all of the engineering courses I’ve taken up to the MSEE I earned. I had a bunch of these degenerate math courses. I am not too happy to learn that they were racist. I *knew* back then that differential equations was whitey for “keep the black man down”. I should have opened my mouth up back then. Ordinary differential equations are hard! Engineering should be easy!
I don’t want to be tainted with all of this discrimination and would certainly be happy with a cash refund adjusted for inflation. It’s the only fair thing to do since the university I attended taught those courses and we gotta remove all history of oppression from the public eye.
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