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Oregon Promotes Program Focused On ‘Dismantling Racism In Mathematics,’ Says Finding The Right Answer A Sign Of White Supremacy
Daily Wire ^ | Feb 13, 2021 | Ashe Schow

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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: blm; cancelculture; doublestandard; kook; mathforidiots; notthisagain; racism; realracism
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1 posted on 02/14/2021 6:58:51 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

The Woke: getting everything to all be equally dumb is their mission.


2 posted on 02/14/2021 7:01:00 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Stupid is the new woke


3 posted on 02/14/2021 7:01:19 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mr. Mojo

These are future car and house designers too!!!


4 posted on 02/14/2021 7:01:22 AM PST by albie
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To: Mr. Mojo

Which is fine since taxpayers are now bailing out the failed Blue states, who are bad at math and great on corruption.


5 posted on 02/14/2021 7:02:17 AM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Anyone in the field of education that does not focus on the right answer is unfit and should be removed from their position.


6 posted on 02/14/2021 7:02:56 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: Mr. Mojo

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).


7 posted on 02/14/2021 7:03:09 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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All proposed by people who can’t find the right answer. “Math makes my brain hurt.”


8 posted on 02/14/2021 7:03:33 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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/eyeroll.

Just get in an elevator designed by these “math” students.

See if the Law of Gravity has more than one answer.


9 posted on 02/14/2021 7:03:56 AM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Democrat/socialist÷RINO= communist


10 posted on 02/14/2021 7:04:02 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Lurkinanloomin

You can bet that this creep will quickly learn math if he is shorted in his undeserved paycheck.


11 posted on 02/14/2021 7:04:08 AM PST by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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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.


12 posted on 02/14/2021 7:04:18 AM PST by pepsionice
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So, they think blacks cannot do math??? That’s racist.


13 posted on 02/14/2021 7:04:50 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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Wonder of amazon's outreach to black women to learn coding will have the same emphasis?

Don't worry about getting it right...because that's racist.

14 posted on 02/14/2021 7:05:24 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: rigelkentaurus

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!


15 posted on 02/14/2021 7:05:47 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Lurkinanloomin

This buffoon is saying that blacks are intellectually inferior, obviously.


16 posted on 02/14/2021 7:06:01 AM PST by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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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.


17 posted on 02/14/2021 7:07:29 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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“focusing on finding the right answer is a symbol of white supremacy”

mon dieu


18 posted on 02/14/2021 7:07:52 AM PST by Jolla
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‘dismantling racism in mathematics.’


More like dismantling mathematics.
19 posted on 02/14/2021 7:08:10 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (I do not regret my decision to cut all ties with Fox News. )
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Plumbing the depths for the lowest common denominator. Math is logic in its purest form. Anything logical is inconsistent with the Wok narrative.


20 posted on 02/14/2021 7:08:57 AM PST by allendale
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