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Link to the manual proposed for use: https://equitablemath.org/ https://equitablemath.org/. The PDF downloads have a lot of content... it would take a while to
by TimTheTinker 5y ago
Link to the manual proposed for use: https://equitablemath.org/ https://equitablemath.org/. The PDF downloads have a lot of content... it would take a while to digest all that is in them.
I'm all for social equality and getting rid of racism (i.e. the horrible practice of discriminating against people, even implicitly, on the basis of race), but calling out "objectivity" and "either-or thinking" as characteristics of white supremacy seems way over-the-top.
Either we teach people from the Western tradition of pedagogy, or we don't. But deconstructing the basic tenets of western philosophy and calling them "white supremacist" is absurd.
It also distracts from what actually hurts people of color and other marginalized groups, thus perpetuating the problem.
- 1cvmask 5y agoThe Equitablemath organization wants to dumb down public school students in California (disproportionately black and brown) and is funded by super rich whites (Bill and Melinda Gates). Bill Gates went to the elite private Lakeside high school with a great Math curriculum. He clearly does not see the people of color as worthy of that by this very funding. This was actual state policy towards blacks and people of color in Apartheid South Africa. The denial of a traditional mathematics education to everyone should be a crime.