Now MATH is racist: Educators condemn
$1M 'Dismantling Racism in Mathematics'
program funded by Bill Gates which tells
teachers NOT to push students to find
the correct answer because it promotes
white supremacy
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Brian Stieglitz
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
6/23/2021 3:38:37 PM
Educators around the country have come out to condemn a 'Dismantling Racism in Mathematics' program which tells teachers not to push students to find the correct answers to math problems because doing so promotes white supremacy.
The program is centered around a workbook for teachers entitled 'A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction' which asserts that America's education system – even mathematics instruction – reinforces the dominant power structures of white colonizers.
Grading students, asking them to show their work, requiring participation and even pushing them to get the right answer are depicted in the workbook as harmful to minorities.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/23/2021 3:41:41 PM (No. 824420)
It's true - - correct answers were invented by white men.
Before that - - there was no such thing as a correct answer. In fact - - there were no answers at all. The very idea of an answer is a white racist construction.
36 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 6/23/2021 3:46:00 PM (No. 824422)
Correct answers enabled Gates success at Microsoft. Now he panders and virtue signals. Now the question: is Bill Gates a virtuous man?
19 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/23/2021 3:47:24 PM (No. 824424)
No one is gonna hire someone who can't do the math.
There is no business that doesn't need math.
25 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 6/23/2021 3:47:26 PM (No. 824425)
Funny. He is saying black people can't give a correct answer
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jimincalif 6/23/2021 3:48:34 PM (No. 824428)
Not pushing for correct answers - explains a lot about Microsoft Windows!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 6/23/2021 3:50:55 PM (No. 824434)
So, when you are hired as an engineer under affirmative action, and you calculate the number of steel reinforcing bars for that concrete bridge beam is 3, and the white engineer calculates that it is 30.....it won't make any difference. Just put in three.
/s off
And don't ever get near an affirmative action bridge.
36 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 6/23/2021 3:51:12 PM (No. 824435)
So minorities aren't smart enough to do math? That is either soft bigotry or flat out racism. Take your pick bill. More obvious every day he wasn't the brains behind microsoft.
23 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 6/23/2021 3:55:37 PM (No. 824442)
Excellence is racist! Excellence is "acting White". Excellence is a cultural construct like biology. Education is evidence of the White Man's boot heel on the necks of every Black person in America.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Sandbar 6/23/2021 3:56:55 PM (No. 824444)
I've also seen new game/quiz shows that lavish money on contestants for correct answers but none for incorrect. Those too are obviously racist but I enjoy the shows. Imma go sit in the corner and practice feeling guilty.
11 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/23/2021 3:57:30 PM (No. 824445)
The only conclusion that I can come up with from all this absolutely barf-crazy anti-racism garbage, is that these people pushing it, are paid agents of an enemy state. America used to have some of the top, most creative and inventive minds in the world. It made us feared by our enemies. But weaken us, divide us, indoctrinate instead of teach and we become easy prey for those, like China, who want to destroy us.
More and more I am coming to believe that the only solution to this problem will be a bloodbath of phenomenal proportions. Kill or be killed. You have Americans on one side, and the Democrats and their allies on the other. You better decide right quick which side you're on because the avalanche has just cracked free with this last, absurdly fraudulent election, and we are descending into nation-wide violence courtesy of Soros, Bill Gates, and others like them, at the behest of the Red Chinese.
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Wait a minute - is the implication here that 'If it ain't white, it ain't right'? Is that the bilge we are pushing now?
We better get control of these communist schools very soon or we are doomed as a society. It may already be too late, frankly.
9 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
leonardo 6/23/2021 4:03:27 PM (No. 824454)
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." - Nietzsche
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
paral04 6/23/2021 4:08:23 PM (No. 824459)
I guess that attitude has led to the crummy Microsoft products that always need fixing. Close is not good enough in math or computer programming.
13 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
raspberry 6/23/2021 4:08:30 PM (No. 824460)
If the right number doesn't count I am going to play the lottery every day and retire.
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/23/2021 4:09:03 PM (No. 824462)
This is f - ing STUPID. The black community needs to embrace the fact that either they are to dumb to compete against other races and live with that stigma or stand up, tell these people to shut up and get out of the way and prove them wrong. So, black community, either you are good enough or not. The ball is in your court.
16 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
offrope 6/23/2021 4:09:50 PM (No. 824463)
In the early days of NASA the computers were mostly black women. I assume they got those positions by computing correct answers. Was that racist?
18 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 6/23/2021 4:11:06 PM (No. 824466)
Not requiring mathematics answers to be correct those students can kiss almost ANY job goodbye. Obviously the sciences, engineering, and architecture are out, as well as, sales, construction, plumbing, electrical, and culinary jobs. Any job that requires a person to know fundamental geometry, how to calculate square footage, how to measure wet and dry ingredients, how to add and convert fractions, and estimate cannot be done correctly without math.
So the only jobs they will be qualified to do are the ones where the people who learned to right answers give the orders to those who didn't.
8 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/23/2021 4:11:23 PM (No. 824467)
Lets speed up the demise of the USA as a dominant power in math and science by not teaching our children math and science. Lets make them feel good about themselves instead so that when the Russians or Chinese overtake us in industrial design and production, they won't know any better. At least they weren't made to feel bad about themselves when they were in school and had to learn mean old math and science. The US will be come a third world nation full of feel good dunces. They will be able to cite critical race theory, use gender neutral pronouns, will no knowledge of culture or art as they will have been banned in the interest of equity / equality, and there will be no work ethic as it would be racist to expect someone to show up somewhere on-time and do a job well done.
11 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
jinx 6/23/2021 4:17:36 PM (No. 824474)
If I were black, I would be insulted by this. How dare they try to say that Black children can't learn math. Bill Gates is a horrible person who wants to control the world. I see why his wife is leaving. She is not much better. Where is the outrage!!!!!
11 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
marbles 6/23/2021 4:20:28 PM (No. 824479)
AS we all know by now, everything , EVERYTHING, is racist.if you question that, you are a " racist ". The only thing to do is not play their game.
10 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
jimboscott 6/23/2021 4:25:11 PM (No. 824484)
As I recall, there are tribes in some regions of the world in which there are only 3-4 numerals in use - 0, 1, 2 and many.
So, culturally, I guess the answer to any math equation that is greater than 2 is, in fact, 'many'.
Using this set of integers for the engineering trade will not result in just 1 or 2 catastrophic failures... but, in a probability...
many
7 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/23/2021 4:32:54 PM (No. 824496)
Just let me know which buildings and bridges these morons design so I can avoid them.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 6/23/2021 4:44:35 PM (No. 824510)
The “Soft” Bigotry Of Low Expectations
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
kono 6/23/2021 4:53:25 PM (No. 824523)
Maybe we won't need math anymore? After these asswipes get through with their American Bolshevik Revolution, the tax forms will be 2 lines without computing:
1. How much did you make last year?
2. Send a check for the amount in line 1, payable to "Internal Revenue Service"
4 people like this.
This just proves "White supremacy".
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
GO3 6/23/2021 4:56:45 PM (No. 824528)
No Mars trips for you then. Well, you could try, but you might end up on Jupiter and your bags will be in Cleveland.
9 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
rochow 6/23/2021 4:58:49 PM (No. 824532)
American students are not at the top of education. This will bring them to a new low against Japan, China and several European countries. Moron Gates not only affluent in medicine though he did not study it, now he is an expert on education. Who knew?? Probably learned it from Epstein on one of his islands!
6 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/23/2021 5:05:37 PM (No. 824538)
Can you imagine in a future socialist America where through affirmative action recruiting that Black structural engineers who cannot understand and do mathematics are given jobs designing and building tall structures and bridges?
And you think that the Chinese, Iranians, and Russians are laughing now!
6 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 6/23/2021 5:18:33 PM (No. 824545)
This is simply confirmation of the "Bell Curve." Black people, because of reliance on their Democrat overseerers, are their own worst enemy. Race has no place in mathematics, but the promotion of this absurdity will help to continue Black people as an underclass. An example, for the past 5 years Blacks have been 'stars' of or included in the background of over 50% of tellevision commercials. I saw one number pointing at a recent 80%. Has that helped race relations? I don't think so. Probably the contrary!
4 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
DougTN 6/23/2021 5:22:55 PM (No. 824550)
Bigotry of low expectations. Grow up without math skills and forget about managing ones finances let alone understanding predatory lending or complex contracts. Just hope this doesn't led to medical or STEM careers
5 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 6/23/2021 5:33:39 PM (No. 824565)
Dateline 2042:
Customer: Excuse me, how much is this gallon of milk?
Store Employee: For you, Sir - $74.00
Customer: Seems fair. Okay....
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/23/2021 5:42:39 PM (No. 824575)
She waited way too long to divorce him.
4 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/23/2021 5:52:11 PM (No. 824589)
If according to the left everything that has to do with cognitive abilities like figuring out how to get an ID and math is racist, what does that say about who the racists are?
4 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/23/2021 6:01:44 PM (No. 824591)
Ironic how the dims keep crying that we need to pay the teachers more money. For what? If there are no correct answers why do we need teachers? Oh, the aren't teachers, they are social workers, community organizers, indoctrineers and baby sitters
5 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 6/23/2021 6:06:49 PM (No. 824595)
Is there no limit to these people's insanity?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/23/2021 6:28:39 PM (No. 824606)
Harms minorities? Grading, participation, finding correct solutions..South Asian and Korean students excel at those very things. Surely they are minorities.
5 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 6/23/2021 7:27:52 PM (No. 824638)
So...a possible explanation for black underachievement in academia is an insistence on accuracy? They would perform better in the absence of objective measures of success?
Because we sure as heck aren't talking about Asians, are we?
4 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 6/23/2021 8:11:37 PM (No. 824671)
Really?
Tell that to the tens of thousands of engineers India graduates every year.
Many of whom are willing to come to the United States and take advantage of those high-paying tech jobs.
3 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/23/2021 8:48:34 PM (No. 824699)
So these under educated morons, screaming for $15 per hour, won't even be able to calculate if their check is correct. When the computers die, they will be as lost as sheep in a snowstorm.
3 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
padiva 6/23/2021 8:51:24 PM (No. 824702)
So...I buy something at the store for $9. I give the cashier $10. The cashier gives me $20 as change.
1 person likes this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
Redwing57 6/23/2021 8:55:36 PM (No. 824705)
I can assure you, there IS a correct answer to math problems. Do you want one of these miseducated people designing the brakes on your next car? Hmm?
In my engineering career, one of my rules was "Physics always wins". F=ma, always has, always will.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
downnout 6/23/2021 8:55:41 PM (No. 824706)
Yeah, I really want to cross a long bridge designed by someone who couldn’t do math. These people are freaking insane.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
paral04 6/23/2021 8:58:43 PM (No. 824708)
So they are saying non-white people re stupid! How racist is that?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
anonymous 6/23/2021 9:01:10 PM (No. 824710)
Didn't the Arabic people invent the current system of numerals? Maybe the woke crowd should be blaming the Arabic people. One wonders where this silliness ends. Soon they'll be telling us that 1 + 1 = 4 and that to say otherwise is a manifestation of prejudice. They don't seem to understand that order and structure are fundamental to any civilization, and that includes mathematical order and structure.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
qr4j 6/23/2021 9:31:00 PM (No. 824722)
Insisting on a kid’s finding the correct answers to Maths problems does not further racism. It prevents ignorance. And ignorance breeds racism.
4 people like this.
Reply 46 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/23/2021 9:58:52 PM (No. 824727)
Sure! Import more Engineers
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/23/2021 11:47:03 PM (No. 824771)
It’s funny but Gates is supposed to be a big time software guy. Would he hire engineers and programmers to develop his software who do not know math and computer science?
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We sure don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, do we ?
Ya know, Melinda is no beauty queen, but it must have been tough living with Bill.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
DVC 6/24/2021 2:39:04 AM (No. 824817)
I had a number of black friends at work. One was an accountant and the other was an applied math expert. Yep, black folks cannot learn math. Just impossible......unless they make an effort.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
mifla 6/24/2021 5:29:28 AM (No. 824853)
God, it is time. End this nonsense.
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