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Auburn High School Proudly Adopts ‘Africentric Math’ To Draw Black Students Into STEM Fields
Biz Pac Review ^ | Apr 2 2018 | Gabrielle Okun

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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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afrocentricity; black; blackkk; canada; ernestjust; math; novascotia; pc; racist; school; stem; teaching; thebellcurve
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To: Califreak
----WTF is africentric math?----

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

141 posted on 04/02/2018 5:44:49 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: Thibodeaux

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.


142 posted on 04/02/2018 5:50:48 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: LydiaLong
Willie robbed 2 stores on Monday. Then they robbed 3 stores on Wednesday. On Thursday they assaulted an old man and robbed his wallet.

How many crimes did Tyrone and Willie commit this week?


A whole lot more cuz you ain't got the weekend yet.
143 posted on 04/02/2018 5:52:46 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: ethom

Bookmark


144 posted on 04/02/2018 6:17:21 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: MeganC

LOL!


145 posted on 04/02/2018 6:20:13 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Reily

“Could someone give me an example of “afrocentric math”?”

See post #3


146 posted on 04/02/2018 6:22:02 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: ethom

“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.


147 posted on 04/02/2018 6:25:13 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Do the math
Race has no place in mathematics.

Common sense, if it existed in this P/C world, would prove you right ... but not in the world we live in today.

148 posted on 04/02/2018 6:26:44 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: albie
All you have to be in order to attain massive success...be black.

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.

149 posted on 04/02/2018 7:41:21 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: ethom

African math could turn Toronto into Zimbabwe in less than a year.


150 posted on 04/02/2018 8:14:37 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

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.


151 posted on 04/02/2018 8:40:19 PM PDT by libertylover (Kurt Schlichter : "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: ethom

Wait for the test scores before deciding if this is good or not.


152 posted on 04/02/2018 9:20:36 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Apparently they did not use slaves...only in the movies.


153 posted on 04/02/2018 9:34:42 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Reily
My undergraduate degree is in engineering. I tutored physics to make extra cash to eat on a regular basis. Trust me you know more mathematics than 99% of the general population.
154 posted on 04/02/2018 10:28:47 PM PDT by Do the math (Do the math.)
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To: BluH2o

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!


155 posted on 04/02/2018 10:39:17 PM PDT by Do the math (Do the math.)
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To: ethom
Math, Biology, physics, chemistry are not euro-, afro-, asiatico- centric

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?

156 posted on 04/03/2018 12:08:27 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Reily; Do the math
Correct. I've known excellent scientists, mathematicians and engineers who happened to be black. Their numbers were few, yes, but taking them as individuals, they were very good.

In the STEM fields what matters is ability, not looks

157 posted on 04/03/2018 12:20:13 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: libertylover; IndispensableDestiny; hal ogen
The pyramids were Egyptian, a "race"* of people distinct from black sub-saharan Africans

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.

158 posted on 04/03/2018 12:51:47 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: ethom

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.


159 posted on 04/03/2018 1:39:30 AM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: BigEdLB

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...


160 posted on 04/03/2018 10:14:54 AM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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