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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: Governor Dinwiddie

>>You have 3 shrunken heads. You paid $10 each for them<<

Beads, you Eurocentric mutha!!


21 posted on 04/02/2018 2:11:28 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
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To: ethom

MF 1 plus MF 2 equals MF Fo’


22 posted on 04/02/2018 2:12:12 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

You have one missionary weighing 180 pounds. How many hours will you need to keep him in the pot to cook him medium well at a rate of 20 minutes per pound?


23 posted on 04/02/2018 2:12:18 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: ethom

To show their commitment to this I’d suggest that libs line up to cross the bridge at the opening of the first one that was engineered by an ‘Africentric Math’ engineer!


24 posted on 04/02/2018 2:12:25 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: ethom

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So, are we to believe that there is “Afrocentric Science?”


25 posted on 04/02/2018 2:12:33 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ethom

“2 white boys arrive at 3: 00 pm and we homeys wanna rob them of $100 with their wallets full of $500 bills. How much will be left if we robbed them of $200?”


26 posted on 04/02/2018 2:12:39 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: ethom

Ebonics math?

Really?

Math is its own language.


27 posted on 04/02/2018 2:12:39 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: PeterPrinciple
Asians don't seem to require Math to be Asian-centric! Wonder why that is?🤔
28 posted on 04/02/2018 2:12:52 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Red Badger
What be eleventy seven times fordiddly nine?..........

You had me till the end, then it sounded like Flanders on The Simpsons.
29 posted on 04/02/2018 2:13:09 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: ethom

Pyramids and trigonometry have what to do with sub-Saharan Africans? This sounds like more of that DNA-discredited “we wuz kangz” crowd.


30 posted on 04/02/2018 2:13:39 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: ethom

The Graduates can then send out job applications and résumés written in Ebonics. Possibly the dumbest idea EVER from Academia?


31 posted on 04/02/2018 2:13:50 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ethom

Tyrone and 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?


32 posted on 04/02/2018 2:13:50 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: ethom

All you have to be in order to attain massive success...be black.


33 posted on 04/02/2018 2:13:51 PM PDT by albie
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To: ethom

The Pyramids are not sub-Saharan......


34 posted on 04/02/2018 2:14:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

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There was one just a month ago, that fell on some cars...


35 posted on 04/02/2018 2:14:08 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Tucker39

This is to all of y’all who replied before I did. I thought about counting up stolen wheel covers or “nickel bags” using that new math, but didn’t do it, thinking it was too raysis. But you all make me look LAME!


36 posted on 04/02/2018 2:14:26 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: ethom

Jevonte has three baby mamas. DeAntuan has 4 baby mamas. How many baby mamas are collecting welfare?

Answer: 7


37 posted on 04/02/2018 2:15:20 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: MeganC
So if Davvon has five rounds in his gat and has to bust a cap in the asses of eight mother******s then how many rounds does he need to steal?

So close.

how many rounds do he need to steal?

38 posted on 04/02/2018 2:15:31 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: heterosupremacist

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They don’t have a “Trump” up there.


39 posted on 04/02/2018 2:15:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

start off with the components of Purple Drank...


40 posted on 04/02/2018 2:16:14 PM PDT by beergarden
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