Posted on 11/06/2021 6:49:09 AM PDT by devane617
California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash Proposed guidelines in the state would de-emphasize calculus, reject the idea that some children are naturally gifted and build a connection to social justice. Critics say math shouldn’t be political.
But ever since a draft was opened for public comment in February, the recommendations have set off a fierce debate over not only how to teach math, but also how to solve a problem more intractable than Fermat’s last theorem: closing the racial and socioeconomic disparities in achievement that persist at every level of math education.
The California guidelines, which are not binding, could overhaul the way many school districts approach math instruction. The draft rejected the idea of naturally gifted children, recommended against shifting certain students into accelerated courses in middle school and tried to promote high-level math courses that could serve as alternatives to calculus, like data science or statistics.
The draft also suggested that math should not be colorblind and that teachers could use lessons to explore social justice — for example, by looking out for gender stereotypes in word problems, or applying math concepts to topics like immigration or inequality.
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Good move, but keep a close eye on them. They’re generally hiring out of the same education colleges as the government schools.
Sowell is a serious genius. I wish we could clone him and have at least one for each state.
My favorite of his is The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. It’s about 25 years old and still as relevant as the day it was first published. Perhaps more so.
https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social-Policy/dp/046508995X
Sub-Saharan Africa already had large percentages of their population on HCQ and Ivermectin for malaria and African river blindness prophylaxis, respectively. While correlation is not causation, as you know, there are many who think both have significant effect vs. Covid.
Here are some interesting graphs and statistics on the latter.
https://archive.md/2021.08.28-042601/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431339779703017477.html
STOP calling it “CRT”.
When they change the name to “Declaration of Independence Studies” you will celebrate.
Call it what it is: Anti-white hatred to hurt white children, especially the smallest.
If a tenth as much effort was made toward learning math as is put toward athletics this problem wouldn’t exist !
***What we need to do is generate sports that combine mental and physical acuity.
Isn’t that the legislation GWB let Ted Kennedy write?
each new play is a new situation. “Math” has just two additional attributes:1) ability to communicate the thoughts to another person, 2) by putting on paper it allows one to proceed in a more logical path.
Full-contact chess? j/k
Why not?
There’s all kinds of permutations.
Basketball where the height of each team’s net depends on their grades from a quiz right before the game. New quiz at halftime.
Football where the highest scoring quizzer is the quarterback, 2nd highest is the wide receivers, and a minimum score for anyone trying to be a lineman. If your linemen are too dumb, you end up with only 2 on the line rather than 4.
Cross country, where you run to each post where there’s a quiz question and you can’t leave until you get the question correct. Combine that with what they’ve already combined: Golf + cross country, where you run to each hole carrying your clubs and it’s a combined time score + golf score, each stroke costs 1 minute or sumthin like that.
Boxing, where you punch into a target during the match and you have to hit the right target answer on the other side of the ring to get your single point.
Soccer. No goalies but the size of the goal is determined by how many right answers the team gets on the quiz for each quarter. Same with hockey.
Robot wars with 3 or 4 functions blocked, unblocking them requires the player to answer quiz questions correctly.
Baseball, where the size of the strike zone is proportional to the grades on the quizzes.
Tennis, where the size of the racket is proportional...
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