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2019-07-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

Educators work to combat racism, whiteness in math

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-07-17 12:26|| || Front Page|| [10328 views ] Top

#1 We will never know. But the bigger idea is why couldn’t this be a possibility?

Wow. Possibility based sciences now. Sophistry married to exactitude produces zero applicability. So what if Brahma-fuckin'-Gupta found the zero ? Someone else had to popularize it for use in equations. The chinese began that in the 6th century when they put it to use in calculating per capita income, and much later an Arab took the idea west. It wasn't until it could be used in anything except counting bags of paddy or writing astrology charts, that the fucking thing came to be of use to someone. How does it matter whether a white guy did it or a brown or yellow one ? It's history, not mathematics. Now it seems it's also political science. Are people really going to elevate/reduce everything from simple calculus to walking on the moon to racial politics now ?

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-17 13:39|| 2019-07-17 13:39|| Front Page Top

If not for the institutional racism I'm sure I could have become a world class pearl diver.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-17 13:54|| 2019-07-17 13:54|| Front Page Top

#3 I think there's more to it than not inhaling, B.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-17 14:17|| 2019-07-17 14:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Put da RHYTHM back in da algo-rithm
oomba-oomba-oomba-oomba...

Posted by Lex 2019-07-17 14:27|| 2019-07-17 14:27|| Front Page Top

#5 So for the last few years J have been told by the media it was a black woman that did the hard math to get Apollo 11 to the moon. Someone here is spinning Yarn.

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-07-17 15:21|| 2019-07-17 15:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Goddamn ! This is madness ! Have you guys actually seen what it entails ? I'm seeing this for the first time.

Characteristics of Equity Maths.

I thought it was just opportunist revisionists seeking petty career advancement by signalling 'wokeness', gaslighting an innocent generation with bilge. It's a neat plan to actually impair the ability of teachers to effectively communicate in a mathematics class, and to reverse all advancement made in western education so far, especial in STEM. I suppose math must be the only subject where clear and terse dialogue takes place, and it cannot be exploited like other subjects, say civics or literature.

Sampler : "Research has recently shown something stunning—when students make a mistake in math, their brain grows, synapses fire, and connections are made; when they do the work correctly, there is no brain growth"

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-17 15:44|| 2019-07-17 15:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Taking the mathness out of math.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-17 16:27|| 2019-07-17 16:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Right privilege: check it. Show your ~~work~~ woke. Remember, kids, right is white, wrong is strong!

Posted by Alistaire Whinerong5775 2019-07-17 17:28|| 2019-07-17 17:28|| Front Page Top

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