Teaching the Pythagorean Theorem or pi in geometry class perpetuates white privilege by giving the “perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.”Rochelle Gutierrez is a Professor of Latina/Latino Studies.
That’s what Rochelle Gutierrez argues in her new anthology for math teachers, “Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods.”
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Thursday, September 26, 2019
It's Sad When SJW Idiocy Seeps Into The Hard Sciences
I expect social "science" instructors to believe in loony social justice theories, but those of us in the hard sciences--where knowledge and logic are supposed to reign--should be safe from such idiocy:
We can still teach algebra, though, since that comes from the Arabic.
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