(02-12-2021, 10:32 AM)jagibelieve Wrote: You can't make this stuff up.  Mathematics is racist.

Quote:Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways "white supremacy culture" allegedly "infiltrates math classrooms." Those include "the focus is on getting the 'right' answer," students being "required to 'show their work,'" and other alleged manifestations.

So as far as math, the focus of getting the correct answer and showing your work is because of "white supremacy culture".

Math nowadays is ridiculous. I was trying to help my niece with her math homework. She is in elementary school. It was just simple stuff and I taught her about lining the numbers up into columns and we came out with the right answers. My sister came home and looked it over and made my niece re-do it. She said that's not the way they are taught anymore and her teacher wants to see it done the right way or she won't give the kids credit. I was baffled! I told her there is only one way to do the problem and we came out with the right answer. She said they no longer teach kids about lining the numbers up into columns and they teach them a new process that they use in Asia. What the crap! Who cares what process you use as long as you come out with the right answer? Why are we further complicating things by changing a tried and true process that has worked for centuries? Meanwhile, kids are graduating and they don't know how to sign their name, because they no longer teach cursive and they have no idea how to figure out a mortgage or an interest rate or daily life skills. They can do Asian math though, so everything is alright. Our educational system is failing.

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