Posted on 02/15/2021 12:38:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Oregon’s Education Department is promoting a training program that will offer a toolkit to help teachers “develop an anti-racist math practice.”
As noted in a newsletter sent by the department, middle school teachers are encouraged to register for a Feb. 21 course titled “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” which they say is designed to help them make use of “key tools for engagement [and] strategies to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students.”
According to the toolkit, one of the ways to achieve this goal is by “visibilizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.” The alleged “toxic characteristics” include, among many others, focusing on getting the right answer, students being required to show their work, and teachers “treating mistakes as problems by equating them with wrongness.”
“Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict,” the toolkit states in reference to setting the focus on getting the right answer. Instead, teachers are recommended to have students “come up with at least two answers” that might solve the problem, and challenge standardized test questions by justifying other answers other than the right one by “unpacking the assumptions that are made in the problem.”
Teachers are also expected to learn to “distinguish between a mistake and a misunderstanding” because “white supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when addressing mistakes,” according to the toolkit.
The toolkit links to a workbook titled “Dismantling Racism” for reference. The workbook similarly identifies the belief in objectivity as a characteristic of white supremacy, claiming that it is racist to believe there is such a thing as being objective or neutral, and that one should “assume that everybody has a valid point.”
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But the drug deal in the alley will be correct, down to the cent.
Don’t underestimate how stupid most people are.
Why not name it “The Training Program for Students to Become Dumb*sses and Fail on the World Stage.”
There is no racism in mathematics. It’s thinking about, and working with, NUMBERS.
Green’s Theorem will be front and center. They won’t know why, but certainly is all to do about the planet!
Well, certain quadratic equations do have two answers, one of which can be negative. If the dimension of the variable is time, we may have to 'unpack' our assumption that negative time is not recognized. Now, if you think that my statement is meaningless, you may have to 'unpack' your assumption that it was meant to be anything else.
I bet when it comes to their paychecks, math suddenly becomes a matter of accuracy again 🤔
Orwell : 1984
OMG! New way: hand then calculators, designer for peiple who don’t b understand how to do math.
I suppose now 2+2 = fo.
“treating mistakes as ‘wrongness’ is racist”
Get real. Math is science in one of its purest forms. Learning math develops critical thinking more than any other science and other sciences are foundational in math. From the curve of an arch to the dosing of a cancer drug.
Math originated with The Creator and with Neanderthals leaving handprints and game drawings on walls to denote population. And was picked up in turn by Hebrews, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Mayans, Pacific Islanders, Eskimos and Europeans, and spread across the civilized world. Except for those nations too intent on multi-century warring against themselves to bother with civilizational cooperation and advancement, which cannot occur without math. People that hate on civilizations that are successful, are just trying to find a means to excuse civilizations that never, in 1000 years, managed to get it together because they hated on math and education in general.
People that hate on math, are maliciously destroying the employment prospects of their students. And that’s a crime against humanity.
Racism in mathematics is like racism in dog food, makes no sense but lets claim it
The University of Oregon are graduating a fresh batch of Engineers. If you do not hire them your a White Supremacist.
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