Oregon promotes teacher program
that seeks to undo 'racism in
mathematics'
Fox News,
by
Sam Dorman
Original Article
Posted By: snakeoil,
2/12/2021 10:06:21 PM
The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer. An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 "Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course," which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for "dismantling racism in mathematics." The event website identifies the event as a partnership between California's San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 2/12/2021 10:11:30 PM (No. 694032)
oh no. Are they going back to The Million Man Math again?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 2/12/2021 10:17:17 PM (No. 694037)
Insanity brought to you by the ODE.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
red1066 2/12/2021 10:22:53 PM (No. 694045)
How does anyone see racism in math? Where's the racism? You either understand it, or you don't. People who believe this nonsense, have no place in education. However, a padded room with a daily dose of meds can be found for these nut jobs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
daisey 2/12/2021 10:25:31 PM (No. 694048)
Yep, I would want one of these students drawing up drugs for me if I was a patient. I guess as long as the student has good intentions and tried to draw up the correct amount, it’s all good. Can’t tell the difference between mcg and mg. No problem. This is stupid and dangerous.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/12/2021 10:35:58 PM (No. 694050)
What could ethnomathematics possibly be except dumb math?
The zero came from one place, calculus from another, geometry from various, etc. etc.
It's math as ebonics.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NeverForget 2/12/2021 10:39:57 PM (No. 694052)
2+2=These people are out of their minds.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono 2/12/2021 10:43:19 PM (No. 694055)
The Right Answer means the difference between life and death in engineering projects. If Black math means not feeling compelled to find the right answer, no wonder Africa has remained centuries behind Western civilization for millennia.
If you think Black Lives Matter, then understand that The Right Answer Matters.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
padiva 2/12/2021 10:43:48 PM (No. 694056)
Hmmm... all numbers must be printed in rainbow colors./s
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SALady 2/12/2021 10:45:05 PM (No. 694057)
Dumb people can't get jobs. They end up on the welfare plantation, where they are automatically expected to vote Demon-Rat.
Anyone else seeing a relationship here?!?!?!?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JL80863 2/12/2021 10:50:17 PM (No. 694059)
Ebonmatics??
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/12/2021 10:52:05 PM (No. 694061)
From now on Portland Woke Not White Math
2&2=22 obviously.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Fasteddie 2/12/2021 10:53:20 PM (No. 694063)
Hey, man -- math is HARD!! No fair !!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Omen55 2/12/2021 11:15:46 PM (No. 694073)
No one is going to hire anyone to design a plane,bridge,building or anything who doesn't believe 2 X 2=4.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 2/12/2021 11:19:01 PM (No. 694076)
The dumbing down of America so we can be a third world country.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bubber 2/12/2021 11:33:33 PM (No. 694083)
colored peoples time? just askin ...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DARling 2/12/2021 11:36:13 PM (No. 694084)
I cannot for the life of me understand how a so-called teacher could believe that lowering standards somehow helps minority students. Except for Asians, of course. It is not a racial issue, it is a lifestyle issue. If you value education and believe in strong, loving nuclear families, you will have a greater chance of raising successful children. If you tell little Jaquan that he should not even try because the racists out there won't give him a chance, he will grow up believing that learning is pointless.
I propose having a teacher stand up in front of the classroom, who will say, "Learn and be successful. Blow off school and be garbage." There is nothing racist about that statement.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Grateful 2/12/2021 11:47:26 PM (No. 694085)
Oregon is the. Science denial state where they accept 57 different genders, 2+2 does not equal 4 and ebonics is the internationally accepted language.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
artsy 2/12/2021 11:48:37 PM (No. 694086)
Why not put energy into teaching every kid, instead of, in effect, saying some kids are too stupid to learn?? Do they think the kids will not notice? Or is it too much effort for the teachers to teach every child??
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 2/13/2021 12:03:08 AM (No. 694092)
Racism in math?
Impossible.
They probably want it to be OK that 100 divided by 4 is sometimes 23, sometimes, 26 and just permit some "special allowances" for black answers.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
valinva 2/13/2021 12:28:55 AM (No. 694107)
The left are getting exponentially dumb.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
coyote 2/13/2021 2:14:18 AM (No. 694146)
Are we moving towards North Korea style mathematics? (If you have 4 American bastards and you kill one, how many bastards do you have left?)
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
JonR 2/13/2021 2:45:55 AM (No. 694159)
The rot in academia is absolutely breathtaking! This is another example of the insanity being foisted on our children by lunatics with teaching credentials!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 2/13/2021 5:02:29 AM (No. 694178)
Here we go again, let's dummy down our math so that the morons look like math geniuses.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hershey 2/13/2021 5:18:18 AM (No. 694190)
'Racism in mathematics"...just how does that work...oh wait, black ink on white paper, that's it!!! ODE says it's white supremacy to look for the right answer? This is too freaking stupid to even consider...math is pure...1+1=2 and all...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
lazlototh 2/13/2021 5:34:13 AM (No. 694194)
"White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer" - so is there program going for the right answer, and reinforcing "white supremacy," or is it finding the wrong answer on purpose? And what about Asian math that so closely resembles the "white man's math?"
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/13/2021 5:37:48 AM (No. 694197)
Somewhere in my basement I have a cartoon I clipped in 1959.
A teacher is talking to her little boys, and says, "When it comes time to divide up the loot, how will you get your share if you don't know long division?"
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Petronius 2/13/2021 5:44:48 AM (No. 694199)
According to these people, "planning for the future" and "delayed gratification" are also part of racist white culture.
This country is going to be toast 25 years from now.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Krause 2/13/2021 5:57:42 AM (No. 694205)
Getting the right answer and showing your work is racist now?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
dst4life 2/13/2021 6:31:00 AM (No. 694217)
2 + 2 = 5.
There. I fixed the "racism."
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Lazyman 2/13/2021 6:41:56 AM (No. 694225)
Instead of bringing everyone up to a higher standard, especially now with a global market, we are bringing everyone down to the lowest level.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/13/2021 6:43:56 AM (No. 694230)
In order to not be racist, one has to value stupidity...I get it now!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Foont 2/13/2021 6:54:10 AM (No. 694240)
Moving from Oregon might prevent this utter insanity from being taught to your child but it won't prevent graduates taught that determining the right answer is "racist" from moving anywhere in the nation to ply their laughable (and dangerous) skills to any task where accurate math is essential to success. If this lunacy is allowed to take root and flourish it is the literal end of technology and modern civilization. One can hope that there is enough sanity still existing even among the far left to make this obvious and put down this kind of thing but these days who knows?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/13/2021 7:35:13 AM (No. 694261)
And we wonder why bridges collapse and buildings fall down.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 2/13/2021 7:48:45 AM (No. 694272)
Yup, when I was a kid learning math, I said to myself " these number are absolutely racist. " Can you believe this crapola? Heaven help us.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
4Justice 2/13/2021 8:03:41 AM (No. 694289)
Now math is racist?? I suppose science is racist too. We all know English language is racist. By the way, have they brought Ebonics back yet? Maybe they can retool the old "New Math" (gawd, I hated it!) and call it "Ebonath" or "Blackithmatic".
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Rama41 2/13/2021 8:34:51 AM (No. 694326)
Yeah. And all those yardsticks with the numbers in rank order and exactly the same distance apart. That's always reminded me of marching Nazis. Every carpenter should be allowed to design his own personal yardstick, one that's not so threatening.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
franq 2/13/2021 8:39:37 AM (No. 694332)
We're doomed. Diversity and liberal ideas are killing us. I can't imagine an English teacher from the '50s reading the broken grammar in corporate emails I get from Hispanic "professionals". It's mind-blowing. And 2 plus 2 be 5; $1.5 trillion stimulus equals "free money". Egads.
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That should help the students a great deal. After all, why should the snowflakes who want to become accountants have to enter the actual CORRECT answer.....any answer will do. And for those who want to get into the space program.....they do not have to have the astronauts land ON the planet....getting close should be fine. And for carpenters, is is really necessary to have all joints and doors fit perfectly ? Isn't "not too bad" good enough ?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
GO3 2/13/2021 9:01:25 AM (No. 694371)
What this really means is that there are a lot of middle school teachers in Oregon (likely in/around Portland) who can’t teach math.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Goose 2/13/2021 9:11:09 AM (No. 694382)
Racist math: Farmer Brown has 20 cows. He sells 10. How many does he have left?
Ethnomath: The Crips have 20 gangbangers. The Bloods shoot 10. How many Crips are left?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
downnout 2/13/2021 9:43:23 AM (No. 694422)
We lived in Oregon for a few years (many years ago). Had the best teacher ever, dear old Miss Montgomery. What the devil happened to make people so stupid as to come up with ethno-math?!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/13/2021 9:53:24 AM (No. 694438)
Integration has brought great strides to education.
We no longer teach History except during Black History Month, We no longer teach that words should be spelled correctly, We cannot discipline black kids because that is racist. We no longer teach Cursive,, We let boys who claim to be girls compete with girls athletics and they can pee in the girls bathroom, Now we are moving into mathematics and accusing the correct answer as being racist.
Yes Integration was the greatest thing to happen to our schools.
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Yes! Prime numbers have always been discriminated against. All alone. No partners. So sad!
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
moebellini3 2/13/2021 10:31:05 AM (No. 694511)
Racism = math, math = racism. Now I get it. These are sick freakin communists out to destroy the children of our country. They are the true racists. They are the true hypocrites. They are the completely brain washed zombies of the communist plantation. People are getting sick of this B.S. Problem is, 2 + 2 does not equal 4 anymore. Appalling..
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/13/2021 10:37:32 AM (No. 694515)
When are they going to admit that the answer is simple positioning on the Bell Curve?
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
DVC 2/13/2021 12:50:35 PM (No. 694680)
And when one of those affirmative action folks who use that "non-racist math" get jobs out there in industry, THIS is what you will get more and more of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtX8rdoJ54s&feature=emb_logo
The Laws of Physics will be strictly enforced, and you cannot get an affirmative action waiver, you morons.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
privateer 2/13/2021 2:19:48 PM (No. 694764)
These ODE balloon-heads should be given a choice between 5 identical-appearing envelopes. One contains their paycheck; the other 4 contain a 25 cents off coupon for a Big Mac. They would learn the value of the CORRECT answer.
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If I lived in Oregon I'd move into an insane asylum for safety.