Math is Apparently the ‘Domain of Old, White Men’
Even the most basic fundamentals of education aren’t safe from progressive politics.
Dave Huber of the College Fix reported.
Teach For America: Math is the ‘Domain of Old, White Men’
Who knew? Who knew that math … excluded so many? For, according to the Teach For America website, “math has traditionally been seen as the domain of old, White men.”
Hmm. I wonder how the Mayans, then, managed to create their exquisitely accurate calendar long before the rapacious Caucasian came ashore?
Just don’t bring up such … “uncomfortable” questions to those who believe the “OWM” (Old White Men) theory of math. Sure, it’ll make them squirm a bit, but you’ll most likely be subjected to a litany of the usual PC nonsense, notably that you’re exercising your “white privilege.”
But I digress. EAG news.org reports:
Judging from the math curriculum recommended, this TFA group, like all other social justice educators, wants minorities to believe that what relates most to their lives in America is racism and oppression.
For example, the site recommends “Critically Conscious Mathematics” and “Radical Math.”
Radical Math was created by educator Jonathan Osler several years ago while teaching at El Puenta Academy in New Jersey. Osler taught Radical Math along-side Cathy Wilkerson, a former member of the Weather Underground Organization (with Bill Ayers) who once participated in a plot to detonate a nail bomb at a dance for military personnel at Fort Dix.
Radical Math provides hundreds of social justice math lessons obviously meant to indoctrinate. For example, lesson titles include “Sweatshop Accounting,” “Racism and Stop and Frisk,” “When Equal Isn’t Fair,” “The Square Root of a Fair Share” and “Home Buying While Brown or Black.”
Teach For America: Math is the ‘Domain of Old, White Men’ (The College Fix)
Comments
SAT questions are filled with this biased garbage too. I guess the thought is to get that propaganda across no matter what. This is the stupid praying on the stupid. The smart ones will see through all of this in spite of the leftist efforts.
Not so, obviously – it’s the domain of young white men, too.
I’m sure that my daughter (PhD in mathematics) and her friends will be delighted to know this.