[Simon Green]

[blu]

Do we really think the kids are even interested in their heritage?

[Midwesterner53]

African math is different from European math? So what does 2+2 equal in Africa? Answer: Anything you want it to equal.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

An oldie but goodie dusted off and updated to the latest fad name...

Africentric Math Test

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NAME_________________________________________________

GANG/CREW NAME______________ Crib_________________

1. Ramone has an AK-47 with a 30 round clip. He usually misses 6 out of every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per drive-by shooting. How many drive-by shootings can Ramone attempt before he has to reload? ________
2. Otis has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, What is the street value of the rest of his hold? _________
3. DeShawn pimps 3 ho's. If the price is $85 per trick. How many tricks per day must each ho turn to support DeShawn's $800 per day crack habit? ________
4. Darius wants to cut the pound of cocaine he bought for $40,000 to make 20% profit. How many ounce bags will he need to make to obtain the 20% profit? _______
5. Desmond gets $200 for a stolen BMW, $150 for stealing a Corvette, and $100 for a 4x4. If he steals 1 BMW, 2 Corvettes and 3 4x4's, how many more Corvettes must he steal to have $900? _______
6. LeRoy got 6 years for murder. He also got $10,000 for the hit. If his common-law wife spends $100 of his hit money per month, how much money will be left when he gets out? __________
7. If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet. How many letters can be sprayed with 3 eight ounce cans of spray paint with 20% paint left over? ________
8. Tyrone knocked up 3 girls in the gang. There are 27 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Tyrone knockedup? ________
9. LaSheena is a lookout for the gang. LaSheena also has a boa constrictor that eats 3 small rats per week at a cost of $5 per rat. If LaSheena makes $700 week as a lookout, how many weeks can she feed her snake on one week's income? _________
10. Marvin steals Joe's skateboard. As Marvin skates away at 15 mph, Joe loads his 357 Magnum. If it takes Joe 20 seconds to load his piece, how far away will Marvin be when he gets whacked? _________

[metmom]

Good grief.

Math is math.

How about leaving politics, race, and gender equality out of it and just teach the facts.

[metmom]

Maybe they should watch *Hidden Figures*.

Fantastic movie about black women and the STEM fields.

[cranked]

Reverse racism is so goshdamn rampant today.

Africentric? Are you frakin’ kidding me? White people had done this sh*t via the creation of caucasian centric math, these mofos would all be up in arms crying racism, like wtf!?!!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Yet no one knows what africentric math is.

[faucetman]

How RACIST is this?

Because they are “BLACK”, they can’t learn math? HUH?

Are these nitwits calling Black people STUPID? It sure sounds like it to me.

Maybe if your crappy public schools and your crappy public school teachers had taught them BASIC math, they could do this math.

[TheNext]

Afrocentric Math

Exam question:

It takes 10 feet of rope to lynch 1 White South African farmer.

The Black ANC African National Congress wants 5 evil privileged White folks lynched each week.

In 4 weeks, how many Whites can be hanging from a tree by Communist Blacks??

[Califreak]

WTF is africentric math?

Math is math and that’s all there is to it.

[x]

This sort of thing can easily backfire. Students in a Georgia school got asked these questions.

I suspect the lesson was intended to be anti-racist in someway, but parents objected to it as racist.

[Califreak]

“There are forty tires in the village and 71 enemy tribesmen. How many necklaces can you put on them?”

[aquila48]

Bookmark

[aquila48]

“One example of the new approach is using Egyptian pyramids to explain trigonometry.”

The only thing that blacks might have had to do with building the pyramids was to help carry the blocks as slaves.

[Beagle8U]

African math could turn Toronto into Zimbabwe in less than a year.

[Albion Wilde]

Wait for the test scores before deciding if this is good or not.

[Cronos]

Math, Biology, physics, chemistry are not euro-, afro-, asiatico- centric

Maths started with the Sumerians and their base 60 calculations (the reasons we have 360 degrees in a circles, 60 minutes in an hour etc.) and inputs from India, Greece, Rome etc

The same for various branches of science

Europeans learnt from Chinese and from Indians and the knowledge shared was two-way. So what is the embarassment about learning what someone from another "race" has done?

[coon2000]

One of my good friends in college was a black man named Omar. He was from Djebouti. In advanced calculus he had a way to solve econometric problems that the professor did not know. It was dubbed “Omar’s Rule”. I am sure he would be highly offended by this.

[pabianice]

>>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.

That'll be a hit in medical school.