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Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo 'racism in mathematics'
Fox ^ | 2/12/21

Posted on 02/12/2021 8:18:43 AM PST by Altura Ct.

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.

An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 "Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course," which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for "dismantling racism in mathematics." The event website identifies the event as a partnership between California's San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others.

Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways "white supremacy culture" allegedly "infiltrates math classrooms." Those include "the focus is on getting the 'right' answer," students being "required to 'show their work,'" and other alleged manifestations.

"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," the document for the "Equitable Math" toolkit reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."

The ODE, led by Colt Gill, confirmed the letter to Fox News. ODE Communications Director Marc Siegel also defended the "Equitable Math" educational program, saying it "helps educators learn key tools for engagement, develop strategies to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, and join communities of practice."

An associated "Dismantling Racism" workbook, linked within the toolkit, similarly identifies "objectivity" -- described as "the belief that there is such a thing as being objective or ‘neutral'" -- as a characteristic of White supremacy.

Instead of focusing on one right answer, the toolkit encourages teachers to "come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem."

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To: wombatsrule
We can still do division and multiplication in our heads.

Me too. And my kids! I had a friend who was taught Accounting by the British in India. Wharton MBA. He could add two columns of numbers simultaneously in his head. Amazing. I could still beat him in chess!

The human brain has amazing potential and capacity.

21 posted on 02/12/2021 8:35:02 AM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: ThunderSleeps

I don’t comprehend how you can racialize “2+3=5”. It either is true or it isn’t. End of story. Or am I missing something here???


22 posted on 02/12/2021 8:35:23 AM PST by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
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To: Altura Ct.

another subtraction for the equation...


23 posted on 02/12/2021 8:36:35 AM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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To: Altura Ct.

From high civilization to living in caves in a hundred years—we can do this!

Forward, comrades!

The future!

Science!


24 posted on 02/12/2021 8:37:06 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Altura Ct.

It isn’t so much that collectivists keep pushing this nonsense, it’s that the average American today is so intellectually ill-equipped to laugh them out of the public square.


25 posted on 02/12/2021 8:37:06 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Altura Ct.
At its heart, Mathematics demands rigor. No rigor, no Math. You can't BS your way through a course in Mathematics. Just as there is no crying in baseball, there is no racism in Mathematics. Math doesn't care what color you are.

You can teach these kids Humpty Dumpty Math, but who will ever want to fly in a plane they designed, or live below a Humpty Dumpty dam?

26 posted on 02/12/2021 8:38:46 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O my great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: CodeJockey

It already is


27 posted on 02/12/2021 8:39:02 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

The notion that bridges should remain in the air is racist—everybody needs to walk and drive on the ground—together!


28 posted on 02/12/2021 8:39:19 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: szweig

After you kill the white guy the equation is wrong. :-)


29 posted on 02/12/2021 8:40:06 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: FatherofFive

Don’t buy any products built by engineers who were taught this new math.

Already in motion as they probably engineered the walking bridge that collapsed over a roadway in South Florida. I note for the record that there has been scant news about the cause of that event for over a year.


30 posted on 02/12/2021 8:40:15 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Don’t drive under any pedestrian bridges, either.

Right.

I loved the movie Apollo 13. When they experienced the problem, the engineers pulled out their slide rules. Amazing stuff.

31 posted on 02/12/2021 8:41:21 AM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: Altura Ct.
"ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.

Worshiping at the alter of ignorance... revealing in stupidly. This kind of crap won't sustain a first world country, but then again the commies pushing it know that.

32 posted on 02/12/2021 8:42:32 AM PST by GOPJ (Biden voters: billionaires and idiots. Check your bank account to see which one you are.PookieToons)
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To: brownsfan

There already there. What’s the next level down?


33 posted on 02/12/2021 8:42:56 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Altura Ct.

No, just no. The left is hell bent on destroying our schools. They’ve been destroying history classes for years and now they are after every subject.


34 posted on 02/12/2021 8:43:01 AM PST by ttiger7
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To: FatherofFive

or fly in an airplane or drive over a bridge designed by one of them.


35 posted on 02/12/2021 8:43:08 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Altura Ct.

So, Sir Newton was a racist. Who’d have thunk it?


36 posted on 02/12/2021 8:43:19 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: FatherofFive

I still know where my slide rule is, and how to use it.


37 posted on 02/12/2021 8:44:57 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ttiger7

Check out this brief video of Lagos, Nigeria.

_This_ is the future the leftists want:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E67HTbrDWJg


38 posted on 02/12/2021 8:46:35 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Altura Ct.

1. Well, we’re halfway between the Saturn and Neptune, The Earth Moon should be here somewhere, according to our calculations.

2. What do you mean declined? I still have the card. That means I still have money.

3. We can see the success this model has had on the judiciary.


39 posted on 02/12/2021 8:50:44 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Oh sure. Dumb the kids down while the Chinese kids are learning calculus in the 8th grade having already learned algebra earlier.

My DIL was doing advanced math in middle school.


40 posted on 02/12/2021 8:59:44 AM PST by OpusatFR
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