I don't think they know how math works in Oregon
Mr. Perfect
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The Oregon Department of Education is promoting a program for teachers that seeks to “disman[tle] racism in mathematics,” alleging that focusing on finding the right answer is a symbol of white supremacy.
Fox News reported that the ODE sent out a newsletter last week that mentions a “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course” that will occur on February 21. The course, according to Fox, is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for ‘dismantling racism in mathematics.’”
The newsletter encourages teachers to sign up for the training, which the New York Post previously reported includes a section with 14 things associated with “White Supremacy Culture,” including perfectionism, objectivity, and individualism.
Objectivity is described in the workbook accompanying the training as “the belief that there is such a thing as being objective or ‘neutral.'” The program’s toolkit also encourages teachers not to focus on a single correct answer, but to “come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem” and to “Challenge standardized test questions by getting the ‘right’ answer, but justify other answers by unpacking the assumptions that are made in the problem.”
The toolkit also asks instructors to “center ethnomathematics” in multiple ways, one of which is to “identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”
I think ol' Winston might have had a thing or two to say about this one.
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Oh buoy. This is what our country is becoming...
Just wait 'till the first building or bridge collapses that was designed by one of these snowflakes. Then we will find out the the real racism in mathematics.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
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I am so sick of this so-called racism it makes me want to puke, it is the number one reason I turned off my TV, don't watch NASCAR, NFL, NBA, Hockey, Tennis, or any other major sport. It is disgusting how they ram this so-called racism garbage down our throats when Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis and several other cities are drowning in Black American blood from Black on Black crime.
OBVIOUSLY written by someone attempting to disrespect persons of Arabic descent.
Know where Algebra comes from?
Algebra (from Arabic: الجبر al-jabr, meaning "reunion of broken parts" and "bonesetting".
Well Michael Jordan is giving 1 million a yr for the next 10 yrs to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Here ya go. This is how math works in Oregon.
Wallie?
This is part of the overall plan to lower everyone to the level of the lowest common denominator (see what I did there) to make everyone equal. Doing it this way makes the dumb***es feel better about themselves. Bob
Yes, Wallie frum da north! That’s what I was thinking...
I don't even know what to say anymore.
I am so friggin' embarrassed by the state of my birth that if I tried to express it the auto-censor and half the mods here would stroke out.
Mid-April and I'm outta here! Gonna be nothin' but Oregone in my rear view mirror.
So do this Math....There are more stark differences racially in the financial pain of student loan debt. “20 years out of college, only 6% of whites have student debt [compared to] 95% percent of Blacks. Let’s get rid of it,” Schumer added.
What makes racism so upsetting is the politicization of race itself.
Even more upsetting is race being used as a weapon to achieve political goals rather than attempting to solve the problem of racism in America.