Posted on 05/19/2021 10:53:28 AM PDT by MNDude
If California education officials have their way, generations of students may not know how to calculate an apartment’s square footage or the area of a farm field, but the “mathematics” of political agitation and organizing will be second nature to them. Encouraging those gifted in math to shine will be a distant memory.
This will be the result if a proposed mathematics curriculum framework, which would guide K-12 instruction in the Golden State’s public schools, is approved by California’s Instructional Quality Commission in meetings this week and in August and ratified by the state board of education later this year.
The framework recommends eight times that teachers use a troubling document, “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction.” This manual claims that teachers addressing students’ mistakes forthrightly is a form of white supremacy. It sets forth indicators of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom,” including a focus on “getting the right answer,” teaching math in a “linear fashion,” requiring students to “show their work” and grading them on demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter. “The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” the manual explains. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuates ‘objectivity.’ ” Apparently, that’s also racist.
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Math is racist. Everybody knows that....................
Yes, it does. That isn't a bad thing. These people are nuts.
I am truly amazed at how this country continues to insist on its own destruction.
Any bets that the moron who wrote this flunked Algebra?
Fools are easier to lead.
Note to future self...
Do not hire any engineers from California.
Insist on Logic, instead.
Liberals will still flunk it, though.
Insanity
Cannot keep a checkbook.
Cannot balance a bank account.
Cannot calculate a mortgage payment.
Cannot figure out how much gasoline the $5 in their pocket will buy...or how far they can drive...
Well, that won’t happen in the schools that MY KIDS go to, only the other 99% of the schools - that’s why I still use the Public Schools, I’m in the 1% that is untouched by the Left (and so is everyone else that uses the public schools).
smh... you have to understand that a 2 can “identify” as a 3 !!!
geez!! get with the times boomer!
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China is bankrolling the dumbing down of America.
“Math is hard.”
This is silliness. Getting the right answer is key but probably is not the most important thing, at least not at first. Learning how to use the formulas, thus show your work. Everybody makes mistakes. I don't know how you would add two or three or four different six digit numbers without a linear fashion. And none of this is racist. It's just math.
More good news for our, GK’s, who are top drawer in Math SATs and actual math and science courses.
When bridges and buildings collapse and aircraft fall from the sky maybe they'll rethink this. Also, would one of these hypocrites submit themselves to surgery performed by someone who got their position due to their regurgitation of CRT?!
Can’t they just cancel all school after the 5th grade? The special kids learnt enough.
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