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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Wait a second ..they have black people in Canada?
if it’s the same math, who cares if a ‘white’ or ‘black’ or ‘yellow’ or ‘brown’ person developed the theorem? only a racist cares
Let them Africa's bridges, formulate Africa's pharmaceuticals, etc..!
In Nova Scotia?
Let them BUILD Africa's bridges...
You two are hilarious....I got a big LOLOL out of your posts.
“Afrocentric electromagnetism and thermodynamics”
Shieeeeet....
The problem of getting blacks interested in STEM is not anything to do with Africa.
It is a purely North America problem.
Blacks in North America have a culture developed since the advent of the War on Poverty that being book smart, studying and academic achievement is ‘acting white’.
to “Africentric Math” is not going to overcome such a cultural bias against academics.
Know Jesus = possible racial co-existence.
No Jesus = possibility of eventual race war.
Yeah, I’ve heard the same said for science in general, it’s racist because most of it was developed by white people, deliberately so only white people understand it. Somehow it can be “re-developed” another way.
That the scientific method is the way it is for a reason seems to escape them. It’s some sort of self-racism, they’re admitting that they’re incapable of understanding logic.
You would have to be devoid of math and science to believe this stuff....which is the actual problem.
My.
God.
Stop the planet. I want off now.
The correct pronunciation is “fo”
As long as we aren't required to use Roman numerals for arithmetic.
Will they be allowed to “aks” questions
Dat be poleeece to you, Mofo.
Antwan has an eight ball. If he sells two grams to Shitavius, how many grams does he have left?
[I once was so puzzled over how they could have engineered such a legacy of structures using Roman numerals that I looked it up and found out otherwise.]
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