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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: MeganC

*** So if Davvon has five rounds ... ***
That’s so funny!


41 posted on 04/02/2018 2:16:16 PM PDT by libertylover (Kurt Schlichter : "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: FirstFlaBn

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What are you, the grammar police?


42 posted on 04/02/2018 2:16:55 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: beergarden

That’s Afrocentric Chemistry!


43 posted on 04/02/2018 2:17:32 PM PDT by Reily
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To: ethom

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.


44 posted on 04/02/2018 2:18:16 PM PDT by amihow
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To: MeganC; Liz; Jane Long; Grampa Dave; SunkenCiv; Olog-hai

Shorty is pimping three girls.

If his price is $85 per customer, how many tricks will each have to turn so he can pay Rufus for his $800 per day crack habit?


45 posted on 04/02/2018 2:18:18 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: LydiaLong

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You bes bad!


46 posted on 04/02/2018 2:18:51 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: All

2+2=Faw


47 posted on 04/02/2018 2:19:02 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Reily

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

MoFoing 2 plusss mofoing 2 be fo! Or if Tyrone be thinkin of changin from a 10 round single stack mag in his Glock, to a douible stack, how many rounds do he gain?


48 posted on 04/02/2018 2:19:12 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: ethom
One example of the new approach is using Egyptian pyramids to explain trigonometry.

Well, the pyramids are in fact in Africa, but they were not built by blacks. Maybe they should call it Arabcentric math.

49 posted on 04/02/2018 2:19:31 PM PDT by libertylover (Kurt Schlichter : "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: ethom

My high-school trigonometry teacher used the Egyptian pyramids as an example in 1979.


50 posted on 04/02/2018 2:19:58 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Reily

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

Two and two before.


51 posted on 04/02/2018 2:20:18 PM PDT by edh
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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?

I was actually wondering if they had any examples so we could see what they were talking about.

52 posted on 04/02/2018 2:21:04 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ethom

You see a whitey with some bad*ss Nikes. After you beat him up with your homies, how many shoes does he have?


53 posted on 04/02/2018 2:21:45 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: Reily

Yes, but computing the ratios of the various ingredients involves math.


54 posted on 04/02/2018 2:22:06 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: CottonBall
All of a sudden, many of the kids wanted to major in those fields. I’m sure most of the other teachers have never showed them the value of studying whatever they were teaching them. Probably because the teachers had no clue.

Try that in a seventh period math class.

55 posted on 04/02/2018 2:22:07 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: ethom

I always thought was math! I guess they cipher differently!


56 posted on 04/02/2018 2:22:11 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Catmom

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.


57 posted on 04/02/2018 2:22:15 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Reily
Could someone give me an example of “afrocentric math”?

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."

58 posted on 04/02/2018 2:22:29 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: itsahoot

it was every class. Kids will care about their future if you act like you give a damn about their future.


59 posted on 04/02/2018 2:23:16 PM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you , Julian!)
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To: ethom

What day do the checks come?


60 posted on 04/02/2018 2:23:31 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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