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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Numbers greater than 10 are forbidden. Any quantity larger than ten is too big
No quadratic equations ,no euclidean theorems or collararies, no differentials or integrals, no tangents or cosines, no π
no black student must be grade punished for racial ignorance by forcing mathematical reasoning that is simply beyond her comprehension
White folks’ math insists on using the phrase “is equal to.”
Black folks math recognizes equality is a broken promise and bans this painful reminder of subjugation.
So, black math can have no equations.
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“Could someone give me an example of “afrocentric math”?”
See post #3
“One example of the new approach is using Egyptian pyramids to explain trigonometry.”
The only thing that blacks might have had to do with building the pyramids was to help carry the blocks as slaves.
Common sense, if it existed in this P/C world, would prove you right ... but not in the world we live in today.
That helps because it opens every door thanks to affirmative action. People will throw money and opportunity at you but ... you have to have a tiny bit of motivation and enough effort to actually go through the open doors. So few do, it seems, that now the effort is no longer to get them opportunities but rather to get them to actually take them.
African math could turn Toronto into Zimbabwe in less than a year.
Yeah, I started to mention something about there probably being a lot of black slaves, but they didn’t do the math, Afrocentric or otherwise.
Wait for the test scores before deciding if this is good or not.
Apparently they did not use slaves...only in the movies.
Math is just a game. Learn the rules and you win. Math don’t care who you are or what you are. Thank GOD my job is to play that game!
Maths started with the Sumerians and their base 60 calculations (the reasons we have 360 degrees in a circles, 60 minutes in an hour etc.) and inputs from India, Greece, Rome etc
The same for various branches of science
Europeans learnt from Chinese and from Indians and the knowledge shared was two-way. So what is the embarassment about learning what someone from another "race" has done?
In the STEM fields what matters is ability, not looks
They weren't "Arabs" -neither were then, nor, really today except culturally and linguistically.
The ancient Egyptians from the time of Menes (3000 BC) to at least 1000 AD were mainly of Afro-Asiatic stock - related to Berbers (Touregs, Maghrebin), Semites (Arabs, Hebrew/Jews, Akkadians, Amorites, Syrians etc) and Cushitic peoples (Somalis, Ethiopians)
The pyramids were definitely not built by slaves. It looks like they were built by famers during the months when the Nile flooded their fields (and laid down fertile soil for the next sowing)
*race is used as any grouping of people who are physically differnt, so you could have the Irish race as distinct from the English (which is the basis of a lot of anti-Irish racism in the 1800s). If one wants to use bone structure, features etc. then Caucasians are of various skin colors -- from the black skinned Dravidians to the pale Irish.
One of my good friends in college was a black man named Omar. He was from Djebouti. In advanced calculus he had a way to solve econometric problems that the professor did not know. It was dubbed “Omar’s Rule”. I am sure he would be highly offended by this.
Odungo is in charge of tending the village goats...At the end of each day, he counts the goats...How many goats does the village have? This many stones...
African math...
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