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    Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’
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    A University of Illinois math professor believes that algebra and geometry perpetuate “white privilege” because Greek terms give Caucasians unearned credit for the subject.

    But that isn’t the professor’s only complaint. She also believes that evaluations for math proficiency perpetuates discrimination against minority students, if they do worse than their white counterparts.

    Rochelle Gutierrez argues in a newly published math education book for teachers that they must be aware of the identity politics surrounding the subject of mathematics.

    “On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness,” she argues with complete sincerity, according to Campus Reform. “Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White.”

    Gutierrez argues that subjects like algebra and geometry, which relate to arithmetic, also perpetuate racism and white privilege. She worries that “curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.”

    Gutierrez claims that the importance of math skills in the real world also places what she calls an “unearned privilege” for those who are good at it. Because most math teachers in the United States are white, white people stand to benefit from their grasp of the subject disproportionate to members of other races.

    “Are we really that smart just because we do mathematics?” she asks, raising the question as to why math professors get more grants than “social studies or English” professors.

    “If one is not viewed as mathematical, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned,” she says, claiming that minorities “have experienced microaggressions from participating in math classrooms… [where people are] judged by whether they can reason abstractly.”

    To resolve the intelligence gap, Gutierrez calls on math professors to develop a sense of “political conocimiento,” a Spanish term for “political knowledge for teaching.”

    She concludes her argument with the claim that all knowledge is “relational,” or is, in other words, relative. “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively.”

    http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/23/pr...ite-privilege/

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    she basically called non whites too stupid ti understand maths? lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by crazyladybutterfly View Post
    she basically called non whites too stupid ti understand maths? lol
    Yep and maybe she has a point. But her reaction is knee-jerk and won't solve the problem. Non-whites don't have to study maths if they don't want to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by crazyladybutterfly View Post
    she basically called non whites too stupid ti understand maths? lol
    Advanced Placement Calculus courses in the USA are filled with Indians and Orientals, so not sure what she's talking about

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    Not to take away from everything else stupid about this article but....isn't algebra from the Arabic?

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    Instead of trying to help kids reach a standard they attempt to get rid of the standard. This is more about her trying to protect her own education caste system from being held responsible for decades of failure. You can't be held responsible if students don't meet the standard if there is no standard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jennifer View Post
    Not to take away from everything else stupid about this article but....isn't algebra from the Arabic?
    Yes, the word is taken from Arabic.

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    But in terms of technicians, engineers, fund managers, science, entrepeunearship in todays world the Euro gene dominates.

    Not to say this will stay the way as it is as New World love affair with money-only multi culaturalism a juxtoposition between trotskyism and capitalism will eventually dilute the Euro gene....The current third world has potential to jump ahead as we see China & Koreans being one of the most dominant players on the world stage today.. the shift could end up elsewhere soon perhaps...as they stay pure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jennifer View Post
    Not to take away from everything else stupid about this article but....isn't algebra from the Arabic?
    The Greeks were using complex Algebra over a millennium before the Arabs and there are ancient texts from the time of Christ showing this and were using the concept of zero and infinity in 200 BC since Archimedes invented calculus. Everything the Arabs had was second hand knowledge from the Greeks.

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