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If you are pointing it out in a context that it does not need to be pointed out you have a clear agenda. There are a lot of situations where you could construct
by rdtwo 4y ago
If you are pointing it out in a context that it does not need to be pointed out you have a clear agenda. There are a lot of situations where you could construct a math problem that would be problematic. For example we could calculate costs of abortion or apperication of firearm costs. We could calculate the costs of killing Russian tanks all those would be highly political math problems.
- gigatexal 4y agoIt’s absolutely insane to me that we are having this conversation: politics is affecting math books ffs.
- rdtwo 4y agoYeah but I do have to admit that calculating combat costs and losses would make much more interesting and relevant math problems so I could see why you might be tempted to make a problem like that.
- gigatexal 4y agoLet’s look at this another way, a way that we might gain common ground on: by phrasing word problems like finding the average of something in the context of things that affect daily life like the salaries of women soccer players it might inspire a child or learner to want to learn more, research more, and by extension practice or learn more math. Making math interesting is one way to help kids better themselves in it. I think we can both get behind that. Now where we will differ is the text of these word problems but what if we had equal parts “woke”/non-“woke” text? Would that be a good enough compromise?