Posted on 02/14/2021 6:58:51 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
The Oregon Department of Education is promoting a program for teachers that seeks to “disman[tle] racism in mathematics,” alleging that focusing on finding the right answer is a symbol of white supremacy.
Fox News reported that the ODE sent out a newsletter last week that mentions a “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course” that will occur on February 21. The course, according to Fox, is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for ‘dismantling racism in mathematics.’”
The newsletter encourages teachers to sign up for the training, which the New York Post previously reported includes a section with 14 things associated with “White Supremacy Culture,” including perfectionism, objectivity, and individualism.
Objectivity is described the workbook accompanying the training as “the belief that there is such a thing as being objective or ‘neutral.'” The program’s toolkit also encourages teachers not to focus on a single correct answer, but to “come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem” and to “Challenge standardized test questions by getting the ‘right’ answer, but justify other answers by unpacking the assumptions that are made in the problem.”
The toolkit also asks instructors to “center ethnomathematics” in multiple ways, one of which is to “identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”
The Woke: getting everything to all be equally dumb is their mission.
Stupid is the new woke
These are future car and house designers too!!!
Which is fine since taxpayers are now bailing out the failed Blue states, who are bad at math and great on corruption.
Anyone in the field of education that does not focus on the right answer is unfit and should be removed from their position.
Words fail me. I hope they post signs in the future proclaiming things like “this bridge built by blacks” or something to that effect. Then I will know not to use it because if they cannot do the math, they cannot built the bridge (or anything else of consequence).
All proposed by people who can’t find the right answer. “Math makes my brain hurt.”
/eyeroll.
Just get in an elevator designed by these “math” students.
See if the Law of Gravity has more than one answer.
Democrat/socialist÷RINO= communist
You can bet that this creep will quickly learn math if he is shorted in his undeserved paycheck.
They should just dissolve mathematics. Just teach kids how to live under bridges, how to hunt bears, how to survive off roots/berries, and how to find safe spaces.
So, they think blacks cannot do math??? That’s racist.
Don't worry about getting it right...because that's racist.
My boy is in his 4th year of college Engineering and you are so right.
Taking Calculus III this semester and it’s a monster!
This buffoon is saying that blacks are intellectually inferior, obviously.
It should be interesting when these kids grow up are make design changes in the aircraft industry. I’m sure that after the twentieth or so 747 falls out of the sky they will reevaluate racism and mathematics.
Personally, I think it is much more racist to kill hundreds of unsuspecting aircraft passengers . . . but what do I know? I’m white . . . after all.
“focusing on finding the right answer is a symbol of white supremacy”
mon dieu
Plumbing the depths for the lowest common denominator. Math is logic in its purest form. Anything logical is inconsistent with the Wok narrative.
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