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"ethnomathematics"
« on: February 12, 2021, 09:44:21 AM »
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy

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The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.
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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.

"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," the document for the "Equitable Math" toolkit reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."


I honestly cannot facepalm hard enough at the blatant stupidity.  Finding the right answer = white supremacy?

Our education system is doomed.


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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2021, 09:54:31 AM »
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2021, 09:54:46 AM »
"Equitable math".
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2021, 10:14:02 AM »
I honestly cannot facepalm hard enough at the blatant stupidity.  Finding the right answer = white supremacy?
I find the concept that only white people are interested in the "right answer" to be pretty blatantly white supremacist.

It reminds me of that video of the woke guy and the racist agreeing on everything.

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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2021, 10:18:15 AM »
I find the concept that only white people are interested in the "right answer" to be pretty blatantly white supremacist.

It reminds me of that video of the woke guy and the racist agreeing on everything.

Yeah they're basically saying white people should be running everything since they're the only ones "focused" on finding the right answer.
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2021, 10:53:22 AM »
Sounds like a bunch of education people don't know math and can't teach it and they want excuses for failing. 
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2021, 10:54:48 AM »
Also part of the technocrat oppression.  If the masses are uneducated, it will be easier to keep them under control using technology they don't understand.
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2021, 10:57:07 AM »
Also part of the technocrat oppression.  If the masses are uneducated, it will be easier to keep them under control using technology they don't understand.

CM Kornbluth wrote a factual article, not a short story.
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2021, 10:57:41 AM »
Also part of the technocrat oppression.  If the masses are uneducated, it will be easier to keep them under control using technology they don't understand.

On this episode of Stargate SG1...............
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2021, 11:02:48 AM »
Also part of the technocrat oppression.  If the masses are uneducated, it will be easier to keep them under control using technology they don't understand.

If they can convince you everything you know is wrong, they can remold your mind to believe whatever alternative they give you. This has been going on for a while now.
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2021, 11:37:40 AM »
Sounds like a bunch of education people don't know math and can't teach it and they want excuses for failing.

^^^ This.
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2021, 11:45:06 AM »
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2021, 11:49:26 AM »
This is one of the most racist ideas to come forth from the modern racist ideology.  I am continually amazed people fall for it.

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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2021, 11:56:16 AM »
2+2=4
2+2=4
2+2=4
2+2=4
2+2=4
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2021, 12:03:06 PM »
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2021, 12:20:44 PM »
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2021, 05:14:58 PM »
Unfortunately, some of them will end up designing bridges with SJW math.

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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2021, 05:27:51 PM »
Unfortunately, some of them will end up designing bridges with SJW math.

As long as they are all standing on it for the ribbon cutting I am okay with that.  [popcorn]
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2021, 05:39:22 PM »
           2 +3(2) = ?

First time through I got sevyn, then I realized that what was writinged as a 3 was actually a 2, as indicated by the parentheses.

So the anser is 4.

Same as:

       6 +4(5) = 11

Because the 4 reelly meant 5.
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2021, 06:07:16 PM »
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy


I honestly cannot facepalm hard enough at the blatant stupidity.  Finding the right answer = white supremacy?

Our education system is doomed.

Brought to you by the same folks who were promoting "Ebonics" a few years ago.
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2021, 06:19:37 PM »
           2 +3(2) = ?

First time through I got sevyn, then I realized that what was writinged as a 3 was actually a 2, as indicated by the parentheses.

So the anser is 4.

Same as:

       6 +4(5) = 11

Because the 4 reelly meant 5.


Obviously you're not a white supremist   :rofl:
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2021, 06:57:49 PM »
If there's not a single correct answer, in other words, one guess is as good as another, why teach math at all?  That would save a lot of time (as if there's a way to measure time!!!) and everybody would feel equally  good about themselves, which apparently is the point.
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2021, 07:08:12 PM »
If there's not a single correct answer, in other words, one guess is as good as another, why teach math at all?  That would save a lot of time (as if there's a way to measure time!!!) and everybody would feel equally  good about themselves, which apparently is the point.

More time to explain how Donald Trump invented slavery in 1619.
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2021, 07:35:25 PM »
If there's not a single correct answer, in other words, one guess is as good as another, why teach math at all?  That would save a lot of time (as if there's a way to measure time!!!) and everybody would feel equally  good about themselves, which apparently is the point.

We should have seen this coming. It's been there, right in front of us, for years. Now that everyone has a calculator, or a cell phone that plays calculator upon request, and stores all have registers that calculate change, clerks (sorry -- "associates") don't have to figure out or count change any more. I'm not the only one here who has commented on the phenomenon. Suppose you're in  a store and your bill rings up as $19.06. You hand the cashier a twenty, a nickle, and a penny. The cashier than stands there for ten minutes, staring at the six cents and wondering why that stupid old man gave me coins when all he needs is change for a twenty.

Then they finally get around to punching $20.06 into the "Amount tendered" box, and the look on their faces when the change rings up to an even one dollar is priceless. It's like "Magic! How did he do that?"
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Re: "ethnomathematics"
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2021, 07:43:54 PM »
A corrupted education makes government dependants serfs.