This makes total sense to me. I am a math teacher at a private high school and we also rejected several textbooks for the same reason.
All kinds of crazy liberal woke examples in the textbook. It sounds crazy until you actually pick up and read these books. Many textbook companies know their textbooks will be chosen by teachers unions not for being excellent, but for being the most woke.
Fail. You are not a math teacher. Real math teachers don't look for nor care about this stuff.
This is EXACTLY the nonsense that you, carmine and the rest of your kind THINK makes a plausible argument. You simply throw around accusations, consipiracy theories and then say that very thing "well, because I have no evidence (because you NEVER do), it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."
So, essentially, this is your ticket to make bleep up without anybody being able to question or doubt you.
I read the PDF and saw the SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To...). But I don't understand some of the SWBAT. They seem... well... a bit subjective for math, which to me is pure science. For example, can someone explain this to me? It's one of the SWBATs and I'm trying to understand its purpose for being in a math curriculum.
Can you recognize and name oppressive mathematical practices in your experience?
I need some context to understand what this means. Other than racial quotas, which I'm guessing is not their learning objective, I'm not sure what an "oppressive mathematical practice" might be. Maybe it's because it's 5AM and I haven't had my coffee yet. :) Could someone give me an example? Thanks.
Best I can think of is when cultural diversification is forced into a word problem. So, instead of "Bob had 5 apples, he loses 2, how many does Bob have now." we go with a name like "Muhammad" or "Rasheed." It's like the pictures of kids in textbooks are overly diverse with the token wheel chair kid added. Textbooks are pushing diversification. That's obvious. But, I don't and have never seen racial oppressiveness in the way math is taught or at least introduced in text books.
Where does Power and Oppression show up in our math experiences? ● Who holds power in a mathematical classroom?
..... And the rest seem to be quite distracting from math.
Did you read the actual document? It's astonishing to me that people on here can debate things like critical velocity or lactate threshold or fast/slow twitch or the krebs cycle ... but get super dumb when it comes to things like this.
Its title is: K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework. It's not the math curriculum. I understand it correctly, it's a guideline for analyzing, reviewing, and reflecting on how ethic biases and cultural influences can impact students' understanding of math. I assume the goal is to challenge teachers and administrators to improve and remove these biases. When you can recognize things that are impediments to learning, you can improve instruction and ultimately (hopefully) mastery of the subject by students.
My guess is the conservative zealots think they are doing the same thing - setting up a framework to improve education. But they are doing it with such a bigoted, overtly racist approach (OMG CRT bad) that the result will be much worse for students and educators. Not to mention, it's being imposed by politicians and lobbyists instead of being developed by teachers.
Florida is practicing Orwellian thought control. You know that the government surveyed university students and employees as to whether they were conservative or liberal (no other option--moderate appeared in one other question), etc.? They're also making sure they can survey every single syllabus in the university system in advance, approve or disapprove, in case they don't like what's being taught. How is this not Orwellian?
Florida is also setting up a new 'Office of Election Crimes'. DeSantis wants 52 people to work on the 262 complaints of election fraud that are recorded each year. Why the existing police can't do it is unknown.
The people usually citing Orwell are strangely quiet about a taskforce with lots of time on their hands investigating whether your vote was correct.
..... And the rest seem to be quite distracting from math.
Did you read the actual document? It's astonishing to me that people on here can debate things like critical velocity or lactate threshold or fast/slow twitch or the krebs cycle ... but get super dumb when it comes to things like this.
Its title is: K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework. It's not the math curriculum. I understand it correctly, it's a guideline for analyzing, reviewing, and reflecting on how ethic biases and cultural influences can impact students' understanding of math. I assume the goal is to challenge teachers and administrators to improve and remove these biases. When you can recognize things that are impediments to learning, you can improve instruction and ultimately (hopefully) mastery of the subject by students.
My guess is the conservative zealots think they are doing the same thing - setting up a framework to improve education. But they are doing it with such a bigoted, overtly racist approach (OMG CRT bad) that the result will be much worse for students and educators. Not to mention, it's being imposed by politicians and lobbyists instead of being developed by teachers.
I happened to read it and all I can say is that it is pure CRT garbage (oh no, please don't think I'm racist for opposing CRT!). The ideas expressed in the document are based in the same themes of all CRT-application in that they have to do with power dynamics between racial groups and assumes that all cultural institutions (such as our education system) are created in such a way that upholds white supremacy and oppresses POC. That's where you get the bits about "Power and Oppression."
Now if ALL the authors of the document were proposing was that we should teach mathematical concepts of different cultures, then I would say that's an interesting idea and might have some merit to it. That's not what was not the point was though, the point was to teach POC that math curriculums in the west were all designed in such a way that oppresses POC and that if POC are doing poorly in these classes it's because they were set up to fail. Horrible thing to teach people, especially since it's not true.
Didn't you all know that CRT = Critical Rhombus Theory?
While we're at it, I'm surprised that the children of Florida don't realize this obvious fact: 74.2 million votes > 81.3 million votes
Furthermore, Florida should outlaw quantum computing because its processors are non-binary
In all honesty, parents in Florida should just shield their fragile and precious "Little Johnnys" and "Little Suzies" by keeping them home so they never need to learn the truth about what happened in this country. Their fragile little beings just can't handle the truth. They're far better off staying at home and surfing porn sites than being eposed to CRT even though it really isn't CRT, dolts, CRT isn't taught in schools. Some folks re just too dense to understand that.
It must suck that Washington does not abide by the laws made up by DeSantis.
That's what's great about the USA. You can choose to live in the State of Washington or the State of Florida, and if you want, you can even base your decision on the laws of the state with which you most agree. There are also 48 other states, several territories, and even a special governmental enclave known as a district, in which a person can choose to live or not live based on their liking.
Textbook example of “Privilege”. In your world ANYONE can just call the movers, pack up and move to the state of their choice. Smh
The Seattle Public Schools Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee (ESAC) released a rough draft of notes for its Math Ethnic Studies framework in late September, which attempts to connects math to a history of oppression.
The framework is broken into four different themes: “Origins, Identity, and Agency,” “Power and Oppression,” “History of Resistance and Liberation,” and “Reflection and Action.”
The daily caller......enough said. This isn't a real news outlet. Just insecure white boys talking s*** about any and everyone who isn't white, male, American and a repub.
if crt isn't in schools, why does it matter if republicans ban it?
By your reply, I am assuming that you didn't finish school.
First off, they are banning math books that are fine and lying stating that it is Critical Race Theory, which is a course taught in some Law Schools.
Secondly it matters because they are banning books.
Thirdly it matters because they are liars who are clearly racist and feed this complete nonsense to other backwoods racist white folks who think their little country bumpkin kid is being taught that they are racist. The schools aren't teaching racism, its the governor and the parents of the ones who believe the BS the governor said.
The Seattle Public Schools Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee (ESAC) released a rough draft of notes for its Math Ethnic Studies framework in late September, which attempts to connects math to a history of oppression.
The framework is broken into four different themes: “Origins, Identity, and Agency,” “Power and Oppression,” “History of Resistance and Liberation,” and “Reflection and Action.”
The daily caller......enough said. This isn't a real news outlet. Just insecure white boys talking s*** about any and everyone who isn't white, male, American and a repub.
Yep, this tells you all that you need to know about The Daily Caller
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if crt isn't in schools, why does it matter if republicans ban it?
By your reply, I am assuming that you didn't finish school.
First off, they are banning math books that are fine and lying stating that it is Critical Race Theory, which is a course taught in some Law Schools.
Secondly it matters because they are banning books.
Thirdly it matters because they are liars who are clearly racist and feed this complete nonsense to other backwoods racist white folks who think their little country bumpkin kid is being taught that they are racist. The schools aren't teaching racism, its the governor and the parents of the ones who believe the BS the governor said.
Either prove they are lying or take your racism somewhere else
Forty years ago, Roger Bailey created his LAB Profile and I was fortunate to learn his techniques back then.
Subsequently, it's been used successfully in a variety of fields... sales, leadership, motivation, and self-improvement... but it's a real shame that it has not been widely adapted to teaching.
In the (VERY) short version of LAB 1.0 that I learned 37 years ago, people learn in a combination of four ways... see, hear, read, and do. Studies show that most people have a preference for learning method, a second preference, and a weakness. In my case, my strength is reading followed by seeing. Hearing is my weakness. My ability to retain what I hear is very low.
I apologize for bringing race and sex into this, but I have to in order to make my point. Studies show males and females learn differently. Studies also show that the preferred learning method for black males is doing and seeing. This puts them at a disadvantage in a math classroom because they aren't physically "seeing" the 3 apples that Bob has or the 1 apple he gives away... nor are they doing the giving of the apple away.
OTOH, students like me who learn by reading have a distinct advantage because we can skim textbooks and retain far more than people whose primary learning method is seeing or doing.
if crt isn't in schools, why does it matter if republicans ban it?
By your reply, I am assuming that you didn't finish school.
First off, they are banning math books that are fine and lying stating that it is Critical Race Theory, which is a course taught in some Law Schools.
Secondly it matters because they are banning books.
Thirdly it matters because they are liars who are clearly racist and feed this complete nonsense to other backwoods racist white folks who think their little country bumpkin kid is being taught that they are racist. The schools aren't teaching racism, its the governor and the parents of the ones who believe the BS the governor said.
I can see you're clearly worked up over this and thus aren't able to think straight, but rest assured that no books are being banned. Florida is just not choosing to buy and teach from certain math textbooks, that doesn't mean that others can't buy them. There, aren't you glad you can stop losing sleep over this little misunderstanding?
Second, Critical Race Theory is not a class, it's a theory (hard to believe, I know). It's a theory that was taught in certain law school classes, but that does make it itself a class. Just like teaching geometry in the context of a class does not make geometry itself a class. This argument that since critical race theory was taught in law schools means that it can't be taught anywhere else is mindnumbingly stupid, but angry liberals like you will eat it up anyways because you don't have the capability to think for yourself. Critical Race Theory - the theory that assumes that society is reduced to group power struggles, and that all social norms and institution are designed in a way that upholds the power of the dominant group over all others - has been applied in many different contexts outside the confines of a law school classroom.
“I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,”
“You know what they did and you’re not reporting it,” the president said during the call. “You know, that’s a criminal — that’s a criminal offense. And you know, you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. That’s a big risk.”
“I think we should come to a resolution of this before the election,” Mr. Trump said. Otherwise, he said, “you’re going to have people just not voting.” “They don’t want to vote,” he said. “They hate the state. They hate the governor and they hate the secretary of state.” He added: “The people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated.” Mr. Raffensperger politely but firmly rejected the president’s entreaties, standing by the election results in his state and repeatedly insisting that Mr. Trump and his allies had been given false information about voter fraud. “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong,” he said.
