The curriculum is obviously NOT demonizing MATH! Learning it is an act of liberation = doesn't sound like the curriculum is calling math racist, does it?pic.twitter.com/9aaZHH6f9O
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The curriculum is obviously NOT demonizing MATH! Learning it is an act of liberation = doesn't sound like the curriculum is calling math racist, does it?pic.twitter.com/9aaZHH6f9O
Reading through the proposal - I suspect that in practice it will include a great deal of History of Mathematics (which is fantastic) and simply use socially relevant contexts while teaching the basics. Those approaches are tried and true ways of keeping students motivated.
This is the most ridiculously disingenuous interpretation of that quote
The screenshot is not saying that there are some questions that are universally irrelevant or should not be asked It is stating the obvious fact that mathematics is a tool used by human beings for human purposes, and that you cannot call any tool inferior without context
That's the whole thing that Kareem Carr - who has more formal expertise in the academic discipline of mathematics than you or I - was talking about The more of a sophisticated understanding you have of math the less need you have to sneer at or "correct" laypeople
Because you see that all of math is just a tool we make up in order to accomplish some goal, and in that basic principle the fisherman in their boat is no different from the academic in their ivory tower
The only question to ask about the way some random 9-to-5er understands numbers in order to make change or whatever is *does it work for them*
Just like it's the half-educated high school English teacher who spends a lot of time correcting people's grammar and it's the highly educated PhD linguist who understands what an obnoxious, rude and pointless thing this is to do
(By the way, you don't have to agree with the characterization of "math is an art and not a science" but it has a pedigree It's the whole point of A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart from 2002, which was itself riffing on GH Hardy's 1940 essay A Mathematician's Apology)
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