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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.
An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 "Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course," which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for "dismantling racism in mathematics." The event website identifies the event as a partnership between California's San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others.
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.
When my daughter was in second grade, we pulled her out of the school she was in because they used Common Core math. They refused to teach that math has right or wrong answers. She was learning double and triple addition and subtraction, and the teacher would not mark her answers as incorrect even when they were. They also did not teach borrowing, which was confusing to her. I taught it to her myself in about 10 minutes.
We enrolled her in a classical school where they used Singapore math. She eventually skipped 8th grade math entirely and will be taking honors geometry as a freshman.
Math is incremental and a solid foundation is necessary. Failing to instill these concepts in young students sets them up for a lifetime of frustration in math.
When my daughter was in second grade, we pulled her out of the school she was in because they used Common Core math. They refused to teach that math has right or wrong answers. She was learning double and triple addition and subtraction, and the teacher would not mark her answers as incorrect even when they were. They also did not teach borrowing, which was confusing to her. I taught to her myself in about 10 minutes.
We enrolled her in a classical school where they used Singapore math. She eventually skipped 8th grade math entirely and will be taking honors geometry as a freshman.
Math is incremental and a solid foundation is necessary. Failing to instill these concepts in you g students sets them up for a lifetime of frustration in math.
Math helps create logical thinking. Any wonder why woke leftists want to weaken it?
Math helps create logical thinking. Any wonder why woke leftists want to weaken it?
My husband (an engineer) loves math because it is logical. He says math doesn’t care about your feelings, or about your interpretation of it...math is math.
Now we have a whole system that is telling young people...â€your feelings are more important than logic.â€
I always was drawn to math in school because of the objectiveness. Numbers are precise and exact, there are rules and order, the answer was right or wrong, no gray area. I'm absolutely baffled at how this gets twisted into a racial thing.
Can't wait until these kids grow up and become engineers, doctors, etc. Last I checked it was pretty important to get the right answer when figuring out load capacity for a bridge or calculating dosing of a medicine.
I can't help but wonder if these people are just screwing around with us at some point. I just can't concieve how searching for the right answer is considered white supremist.
I mean aren't these people embarrassed or have any shame at the nonsense they are pushing here? I mean really.
if i was a public school teacher i would just tell everyone to surf their phones and use tiktok during class and then give everyone straight A's.
You'd probably do less damage to your students than a lot of these fruitloops teaching our kids these days.
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