Feb 242021
 

Unless you simply decide that objectivity and the finding of the correct answer are not needed. Then, math is easy! However, you can make objectivity-less math hard again by turning it from a quest for the objectively correct answer into a  quest for the politically correct answer. Witness, for example, this 80+ page long workbook to brainwash teachers into turning math class into a semester-long struggle session:

Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction

White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when…“I do, we do, you do” is the format of class. This structure of direct instruction doesn’t always allow for the full range of ways of thinking—reinforcing objectivity and the idea that there is only one right way—because it potentially dismisses students’ own ways of processing, and it also stifles creativity. It also reinforces paternalism because the way that teachers model becomes the standard for student learning. Solicit student ways of thinking and processing

White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when… The focus is on getting the “right” answer. The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so. Up-holding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.

Uh-huh. And what other ways are there to do trigonometry than, say, trigonometry?

Obviously I’ve bitched about this sort of thing before. But as time goes by I’m becoming more and more convinced that this isn’t simply some manifestation of mental illness, but in fact something more ominous. I would suggest that the people pushing this rubbish should be quietly investigated. Find out who’s funding them, who’s directing them, who’s whispering in their ears planting the seeds of the destruction of Americas ability to competently do not just complex leading-edge science but basic engineering. I would be *wholly* unsurprised if it turns out that this is just the latest in a long, long game set in motion by the KGB back in the day, or an earlier phase in an equally long game being run out of Beijing today.

There is no “white supremacy” in math. Math doesn’t care about your race, your religion, your sex. F=MA regardless of who you want to bang or who you voted for. E=MC^2 independently of who your ancestors were, whether they were sold off or sold out or ran away or were deported or stayed put. And 2+2=4 regardless of your ideology; all those who say otherwise are either stupid, massively deluded or are trying to sell you something… something that if you saw it in the cold hard light of day you’d recognize as being cheap flawed garbage.

Math Suffers From White Supremacy, According to a Bill Gates-Funded Course

Bill Gates’ fortune was built on science and engineering, married to salemanship. Without objectivity and seeking the right answer, he’d be living on the dole now. I imagine an interesting time could be had by a good journalist who could corner him and persuade him to answer some questions about this nonsense.

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