Posted on 07/16/2021 5:02:21 AM PDT by blam
It looks like the post-modern lot has finally reached what many would think to be a sacred science that usurps the boundaries of racism, equality or wokeness: mathematics.
In Ontario, students in Grade 9 are now being taught about the “subjective” nature of math, including the historical use of math to “normalize racism”, according to the Toronto Sun.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced last year that changes in Ontario’s curriculum are inclusive of a ‘subjective’ and ‘decolonial’ approach to mathematics, the report says.
The Ontario Ministry’s website says “an equitable mathematics curriculum recognizes that mathematics can be subjective”. The post goes on to state:
“Mathematics is often positioned as an objective and pure discipline. However, the content and the context in which it is taught, the mathematicians who are celebrated, and the importance that is placed upon mathematics by society are subjective.”
The curriculum continues: “Mathematics has been used to normalize racism and marginalization of non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges, and a decolonial, anti-racist approach to mathematics education makes visible its historical roots and social constructions.”
Lecce
“The Ontario Grade 9 mathematics curriculum emphasizes the need to recognize and challenge systems of power and privilege, both inside and outside the classroom, in order to eliminate systemic barriers and to serve students belonging to groups that have been historically disadvantaged and underserved in mathematics education,” it says.
As part of the curriculum, teachers are going to be “required to promote cross-curricular learning and human rights to create ‘anti-racist, anti-discriminatory learning environments’,” the Sun reports.
Caitlin Clark, spokesperson for Minister Lecce’s office concluded: “The world has changed, the economy has changed and so should the curriculum that inspires and informs our students and leaders of tomorrow. That’s why our government was proud to launch a new curriculum that is focused on the job market, gives young people skills they can apply to their lives, to their households, to their personal budgeting, with an emphasis on financial literacy.”
“We are taking action to ensure all children, especially those facing barriers to success, have meaningful pathways to quality learning, graduation, access to post-secondary education and good-paying jobs.”
“Objective correct answers normalize IQ-ism” is what I think they are trying to say. It sounds better than trying to claim what white liberals actually believe: that blacks are too dumb to do math.
Maff sucks.
C’mon, man!
Translation: Those with no aptitude for learning math feel stuck in the crab bucket of ignorance, so they are going to try and make sure the rest of us stay in the bucket of dummies with them.
What would those black women mathematicians from “Hidden Figures” say? They would probably tell these “educators” to STHU. So would my black Algebra teacher from high school who was an excellent math teacher.
“...marginalization of non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges...”
I confess to ignorance about what the heck this idiot means, and seek enlightenment. Contemporary mathematics seems to be a conglomerate of diverse ideas drawn from around the globe. Babylon gave us the base-6 math still used in world time systems. And likely the concept of “zero”. The prevalent system for writing numerals comes from India. Algebra comes from the Middle East. Analytical geometry and calculus, I’ll admit, were developed in Europe. South Asia and East Asia produce many premier mathematicians.
Most of the world does a far better job with math education than Western schools. Yet this fool wants to dumb down numerate students and stigmatize math achievement as racist.
Of course.
That would be the pyramid builders.
There are more pyramids in Mexico that all the rest of the world combined.
Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America
And...they came from here:(The wise men from the east)
The cradle of human civilization may well have been the prehistoric lowlands of the Southeast Asian peninsula, rather than the Middle East. Since those lowlands ‘sank’ beneath the seas thousands of years ago (actually drowned by rising sea levels), humanity has remained unaware of their possible significance up through the early 21st century.
Its also very explainable why you see pyramids everywhere.
The shape is a natural first step in building anything tall.
Now maybe there was seaborne communication between the old & new world. I am the first one to say we sell the ancients short on what they could do. (I also don’t go overboard about what they ancienst could do either !). The Polynesians ventured for to conquer the Pacific during the late Neolithic. Humans are remarkably clever particularly when they need to be !
“ Those with no aptitude for learning math feel stuck in the crab bucket of ignorance,”
Liberal whites feel arrogantly superior when blacks struggle learning. They feel it must be racist of them if they can master a skill that many blacks fail.
“Do you have my number?”
Sorry...numbers are racist...
I think the number one is more racist than the number zero.
And if zero isn’t racists, I don’t know what is...
Maybe...
Fried chicken and watermelon.
Dinner calls, see ya.
5.56mm
Forgot to mention the potato salad and collards.
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I’m sure math has been used for that and MANY OTHER BAD THINGS.
I mean, it took a bit o’math to build the atom bomb, no?
It’s All So Tiresome!!!!
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