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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That’s so funny!
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What are you, the grammar police?
That’s Afrocentric Chemistry!
Ah yes. Deprive those Blacks of the best of Western Civ and the culture in which they live. Make it laess likely they will succeed and then pay for affirmative action hiring.
How arrogant of them.
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2+2=Faw
“Could someone give me an example of “afrocentric math”?
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Well, the pyramids are in fact in Africa, but they were not built by blacks. Maybe they should call it Arabcentric math.
My high-school trigonometry teacher used the Egyptian pyramids as an example in 1979.
“Could someone give me an example of “afrocentric math”?”
Two and two before.
I was actually wondering if they had any examples so we could see what they were talking about.
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Yes, but computing the ratios of the various ingredients involves math.
Try that in a seventh period math class.
I always thought was math! I guess they cipher differently!
Exactly...Engineering is HARD.
You want to someday get paid $$$$, study HARD!
You want to live in your parents basement till you are 40...do lots of drugs and play video games till 3am.
Yes, that is what I was wondering too. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around this idea that math can have any sort of cultural component in it. It's abstract stuff, and I don't see how you make it "African."
it was every class. Kids will care about their future if you act like you give a damn about their future.
What day do the checks come?
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