Posted on 04/02/2018 2:02:01 PM PDT by ethom
A Canadian high school switched to “Africentric Math” to attract black students to go into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math(STEM) fields, according to Canadian Broadcasting’s(CBC) Wednesday report.
Nova Scotia’s Auburn Drive High School math teachers are skipping their previous eurocentric approach to teaching mathematics so black students will gain more interest in the subject, the CBC reported. Teachers are adopting an Afrocentric lens to teach mathematics, based on incorporating African history and culture to make math classes resonate with their students.
Auburn High School is working with the Imphop’s Legacy Academy, a program encouraging black students to get interested in STEM, to craft their new curriculum. One example of the new approach is using Egyptian pyramids to explain trigonometry.
“It’s academic math, but we want to build their self-confidence, their self-awareness so they can feel that they’re capable of doing the math,” Auburn Drive High School Principal Karen Hudson said.
Temple University’s African Studies Chair Molefi Asante originally designed the Afrocentric movement in a book, “Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change,” published in 1980. He criticized the “Eurocentric” focus of education and instead encouraged academics to make lessons more relatable to African students. One example is teaching biology based on black biologist Ernest Just’s research over someone white, according to The American Prospect.
There are already 23 students who signed up to take the Afrocentric math class starting September 2018.
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“Africentric Math”
Wut dat be?
Afrocentric math is wonderful. It is the math responsible for the ancient African civilizations that have been uncovered by archeologists. Civilizations that make white people look like they lived in caves. And whatever.
It’s 3:00. Where the hell is Louie?
Well, you tell me. Louie left his house at 2:15 and had to travel a distance 6.2 miles traveling at a rate of five miles a hour. When will Louie get here?
Depends if he stops to see his ho.
That’s what we call a variable.
Will these students be able to tell the difference between (255,255,255) and (0,0,0)?
Dantuan is meeting LaQueesha at the movies at 6 o’clock. It’s 5:20, and Dantuan is four miles away.
QUESTION: Who is Dantuan’s biological father?
Mary has eight apples, Johnny has five apples, and Dantuan has four apples.
QUESTION: From whom did Dantuan steal his apples?
Besides, I'm starting to see many intelligent black folk in STEM.
One company I went to, I was the token white boy.
Day be needin sum Afro-calc fo dat! Dat's OK cuz Newton an Leibniz loined it from afros.
Basically, luck, tribal memories, and "feelings".
Yeah, I want to fly in a plane engineered with Wakanda math. /s
Used to be, a teacher could motivate the kids by pointing out some other demographic, typically a rival, had mastered a subject.
Nothing said get your butt in gear like Sputnik going up.
Now the idiot academics want you to be able to “see your culture” in a subject. These people are completely ignorant of human nature.
The best way to motivate people is to point out the absence of their culture in contributing to a field, then tell them to get cracking or get left behind.
I was never racist enough to care whether the math I learned came from Greece (geometry), from the Arabs (al-gebra), or wherever. The activist Left is unbelievably bigoted.
None.
We Dindonuffin.
Do we really think the kids are even interested in their heritage?
African math is different from European math? So what does 2+2 equal in Africa? Answer: Anything you want it to equal.
Dumb pandering program. Besides—Imhotep wasn’t black, he was a great man, a true genius in many ways and he should be honored. (The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans honored him). Egyptians didn’t care a fig about race and skin color. Some were black, some white, but most were brown. As long as you spoke Copt (Egyptian), Drank from the Nile River, worshiped one of the 3,000 Egyptian Gods, and liked cats you were OK. To them there were only two kinds of people in the world: Egyptians and people who wished they were Egyptians.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was Common Core math, not Africentric math.
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