James Lindsay wrote an article last year called 2+2 Never Equals 5. If I'm understanding him correctly, "white mathematics" would rely entirely on logic and exclude "other ways of knowing" and "other knowledges".
An example from the article:
Sometimes, when you put two grams of something with another two grams of something, you get five grams.
So, a teacher getting away from 'white mathematics" would accept 2+2=5 based on the student's lived experience. A teacher that's teaching "white mathematics" would explain that a scale is only so precise and you get 2+2=5 due to the scale rounding numbers.
Such teachers should be fired. I remember Larry Elder once got called a race traitor and he said if I was a white supremacist you know what I’d do? I’d encourage self destructive behavior and insist that a proper education was acting white.
I remember when I head about math being racist I thought it was a joke. Sadly I was wrong
James Lindsay wrote an article last year called 2+2 Never Equals 5. If I'm understanding him correctly, "white mathematics" would rely entirely on logic and exclude "other ways of knowing" and "other knowledges".
An example from the article:
So, a teacher getting away from 'white mathematics" would accept 2+2=5 based on the student's lived experience. A teacher that's teaching "white mathematics" would explain that a scale is only so precise and you get 2+2=5 due to the scale rounding numbers.
Such teachers should be fired. I remember Larry Elder once got called a race traitor and he said if I was a white supremacist you know what I’d do? I’d encourage self destructive behavior and insist that a proper education was acting white.
I remember when I head about math being racist I thought it was a joke. Sadly I was wrong