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I didn't bring up the "math is racist" people, another guy did. However where I live we have a person who published a paper arguing "math is sexist" at an impor

I didn't bring up the "math is racist" people, another guy did. However where I live we have a person who published a paper arguing "math is sexist" at an important public position, so I believe the claim about "math is racist" people getting support instead of disdain.

whimsicalism 5y ago
> where I live we have a person who published a paper arguing "math is sexist" at an important public position Could you link the general controversy? If the argument is that in the community of people who practice math, there are many who have racist or sexist biases, I find that plausible and not really a "lunatic" idea. If the argument is the general form of math (say algebra) is intrinsically sexist, then I think that is lunacy. I think the two are intentionally conflated to make the former sound like the latter.
- username90 5y ago
  Was physics, not math, but the argument is the same. It is the later, that physics is intrinsically sexist since it was invented by men and therefore uses a male mode of thinking. It is talking about middle school education so there is nothing about sexism among teachers. Example she used: The kids is given a lab to test how quickly sugar gets dissolved in coffee depending on temperature. A girl suggests they test immediately with hot water and after it got cooled for 5 minutes. A guy suggests they also tests after 10 minutes. The girl objects and says that nobody wants cold coffee so there is no reason to test at that temperature. The boy argues that they should test the how easily sugar gets dissolved depending on temperature and that the setting isn't relevant. This the paper argues is sexist behaviour and the girls perspective got trampled on when the teacher sided with the boy that they should do three tests. Page 14 here, you can use an auto translate or so. https://www.skolverket.se/download/18.6bfaca41169863e6a65380b/1553956715013/pdf590.pdf https://www.skolverket.se/download/18.6bfaca41169863e6a65380...

whimsicalism 5y ago

> where I live we have a person who published a paper arguing "math is sexist" at an important public position Could you link the general controversy? If the argument is that in the community of people who practice math, there are many who have racist or sexist biases, I find that plausible and not really a "lunatic" idea. If the argument is the general form of math (say algebra) is intrinsically sexist, then I think that is lunacy. I think the two are intentionally conflated to make the former sound like the latter.

username90 5y ago
Was physics, not math, but the argument is the same. It is the later, that physics is intrinsically sexist since it was invented by men and therefore uses a male mode of thinking. It is talking about middle school education so there is nothing about sexism among teachers. Example she used: The kids is given a lab to test how quickly sugar gets dissolved in coffee depending on temperature. A girl suggests they test immediately with hot water and after it got cooled for 5 minutes. A guy suggests they also tests after 10 minutes. The girl objects and says that nobody wants cold coffee so there is no reason to test at that temperature. The boy argues that they should test the how easily sugar gets dissolved depending on temperature and that the setting isn't relevant. This the paper argues is sexist behaviour and the girls perspective got trampled on when the teacher sided with the boy that they should do three tests. Page 14 here, you can use an auto translate or so. https://www.skolverket.se/download/18.6bfaca41169863e6a65380b/1553956715013/pdf590.pdf https://www.skolverket.se/download/18.6bfaca41169863e6a65380...