Seattle’s public-school district has proposed a new math curriculum that would teach its students all about how math has been “appropriated” — and how it “continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities.”
A draft of the curriculum, which was covered in an article in Education Week, would teach students how to “explain how math and technology and/or science are connected and how technology and/or science have (sic) been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color,” as well as to “identify and teach others about mathematicians* of color in their various communities: schools, neighborhoods, places of worship, businesses, etc.”
Education Week reports:
If adopted, its ideas will be included in existing math classes as part of the district’s broader effort to infuse ethnic studies into all subjects across the K-12 spectrum. Tracy Castro-Gill, Seattle’s ethnic studies director, said her team hopes to have frameworks completed in all subjects by June for board approval.
If the frameworks are approved, teachers would be expected to incorporate those ideas and questions into the math they teach beginning next fall, Castro-Gill said. No districtwide—or mandated—math/ethnic studies curriculum is planned, but groups of teachers are working with representatives of local community organizations to write instructional units for teachers to use if they wish, she said.
As strange as it may sound, this proposed curriculum is not the first time that someone has argued for teaching math in this way. In fact, in 2017, an online course developed by Teach for America — titled “Teaching Social Justice Through Secondary Mathematics” — instructed how to teach their students how “math has been used as a dehumanizing tool.” Also in 2017, a University of Illinois math-education professor detailed what she saw as some of the more racist aspects of math, claiming that “mathematics itself operates as Whiteness.”
I wrote columns about both of these stories that year — and, at the time, most people likely saw them simply as examples of “fringe” beliefs, confined to only super-progressive, ultra-woke circles. With the announcement of this Seattle proposal, however, we can no longer reassure ourselves that this is the case. Now, the social-justice approach to teaching math has officially entered the mainstream (and taxpayer-funded!) arena.
#1: noone222 To: Dakmar (#0)
There it's the new math !
Fuck Seattle !
noone222 posted on 2019-10-23 05:14:59 Reply Private Reply
#2: NeoconsNailed To: Dakmar (#0)
Parents should have started massively shunning the halls of poisoned ivy 60- 70 years ago already -- maybe more. At Sunday lunch the young state university junior let us know it's training students in accepting others different than themselves to overcome the millennia of "racism" and "bigotry". He was preaching it at us, not complaining! The conservative Christian parents just sat there and even resisted my PC-busting comments.
The real shock of the day: the young lad referred to nonwhites as "colored". "Now they would call you racist for merely calling them that", I said -- but no, it's the current term!
This is one of the major ways they make fools of us. They have to be laughing hysterically over it. "Colored" is considered a heinous, unthinkable slur for 50 years and then wham, it's back in vogue!
The lad's brother went to the same school and voted for Obongo -- "because he was going to stop the wars." Forgive me, I just can't take it and have to unload on somebody.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 05:51:24 Reply Private Reply
#3: Dakmar To: NeoconsNailed, noone222 (#2)
Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 07:17:42 Reply Private Reply
#4: BTP Holdings To: Dakmar (#3)
Do you know what 25 x 26 is? No fair using a calculator. LOL
(Answer: 25 x 26 = 650. 25 squared is 625. Simply add 25 to it.)
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-10-23 07:39:30 Reply Private Reply
#5: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#4)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 08:26:16 Reply Private Reply
#6: strepsiptera To: Dakmar (#0)
strepsiptera posted on 2019-10-23 09:56:34 Reply Private Reply
#7: NeoconsNailed To: strepsiptera (#6)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-10-23 10:09:27 Reply Private Reply
#8: Dakmar To: strepsiptera (#6)
And coupling the idea that the subject matter at hand is a form of oppression is nothing but sabotage of the entire act of teaching it. Sort of like trying to get someone to like cottage cheese by diluting it with ipecac syrup.
Dakmar posted on 2019-10-23 10:19:24 Reply Private Reply
#9: sneakypete To: Dakmar (#0)
How? To n to doan mean fo no mo?
sneakypete posted on 2019-10-23 19:51:50 Reply Private Reply
#10: FormerLurker To: Dakmar (#0)
The reason the majority of the "non-whites" in the ghettos can't do math is because they don't WANT to do math, plain and simple. In fact, this so-called professor is reinforcing the ghetto mentality that anything involving math or science is a pack of lies made up by the white man to keep the poor black man down.
All of the greatest mathematicians throughout history have been white, get over it snowflake.
Who ever hired this empty shell should be fired.
FormerLurker posted on 2019-10-23 21:11:26 Reply Private Reply