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 Broadcastings(CBC) Wednesday report.
Nova Scotias 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 Imphops 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.
Its academic math, but we want to build their self-confidence, their self-awareness so they can feel that theyre capable of doing the math, Auburn Drive High School Principal Karen Hudson said.
Temple Universitys 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 Justs 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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If two hits of meth cost $10, how much for three hits?
Whatever you want the answer to be will OK with the school.
Sigh. Is there any wonder why there are no great cities of black Africa.
Admittedly it’s a small sample, but based on my experience with actual Africans that I have met (who work in various engineering or math-related professions), they didn’t need such foolish teaching methods in order to learn math and succeed - in fact, they would have been insulted if a bunch of leftist idiots tried to dumb things down for them in such a way.
I think it involves removing shoes so there’s more extremities to use for counting. Dropping trou helps too, gives three more, maybe. Unless a “magic Johnson” is involved!
That be afro-grammatical police . . . Crackah!!!
3 sticks plus mud = kill whitey
Wrong. You’re still thinking too Eurocentric.
Jevonte hooked-up wif two of the same b*tches as DeAuntuan. So the answer is 5. 5 baby mammas.
Give me twenty million taxpayer dollars and I will have explained to you afrocentric math.
math be all hard and $#!+...teach be all up in my grill asking me to solve for X and $#!+...I be like yo beotch, the only X I’se knows is Malcom. Let me teach you a few things!
I’ll say it again; should’ve picked our own crops...racial coexistence has seldom, if ever, been less achievable than now...
Ojimbwi lives in a mud hut in the Sudan. Next to his hut is a pile of cattle dung that is 10 feet high with a base of 12 feet and is conical in shape.
Find the center of mass for this pile of dung.
...because Canada is still getting over the scars from slavery.
-PJ
Something doesn’t add up?
Hahahaha!!! I stand corrected!!!
‘A 1 is a 1 is a 1. In Africa that rule applies as well...’
but only if a black person says so...
Fifty years ago we sent a men to the moon but we still haven’t been able to develop a standardized test where blacks score as well as whites or Asians. People have tried negrocentric teaching methods before and argued that blacks “learn differently” than whites, but I don’t know if it worked. I suspect not.
Black Privilege.
Thats then how many rounds do he needs ta steal?...git wit da program, mutha!
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