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The rebuttal letter is worth reading: > "...We, the undersigned, disagree. Mathematics is a discipline whose language is universally accessible with good teach
by photochemsyn 5y ago
The rebuttal letter is worth reading:
> "...We, the undersigned, disagree. Mathematics is a discipline whose language is universally accessible with good teaching. The claim that math is not accessible is an insult to the millennia of non-Western mathematicians and erases the contributions of cultures around the world to mathematics as we now know it. Large numbers of students in developing countries are currently succeeding in advanced mathematics, and American industries have been put in the position of having to encourage them to come to the United States to work... We believe infusing mathematics with political rhetoric is alien to mathematics as a discipline..." [1]
1. https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=13658 https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=13658
- path411 5y agoI hope this works out, the number of people who are always like "lol I suck at math" is insane in the US. People are 30yo+ and using it as an excuse to not learn how to move a period to figure out how to get 10%. Smart people who were either discouraged as kids or had poor teachers run around math illiterate. Luckily it's not very debilitating since we do all walk around with calculators in our pockets, but I feel like it's an important part of people's brain, closed off our underdeveloped simply because no one took the time to teach them math.