News from the world of exact sciences treacherously smeared the effect of the morning dose of Azaleptin for us.
On the website of the Inspector of Public Educational Institutions of Washington State (USA) there is a document called "Math Ethnic Studies framework", which opens our eyes to what mathematics really is and what it should be taught. According to the Washington DCO, mathematics is racist a science in the service of the theory of white supremacy and aimed at oppressing students of color and schoolchildren - which means that it is urgent to start teaching it correctly.
Instead of square roots, equations, and integrals, Power and Oppression are now central to the study of mathematics. And now the important task of the mathematics course is to learn how to deal with the terrible state of affairs in which "Western mathematics is the only legitimate expression of mathematical identity and intelligence", which "deprives the representatives of colored minorities of the rights" and "destroys their historical contribution (to mathematics)."
Along with the multiplication table, “colored” students are encouraged to think about other important questions:
- What is “my mathematical identity”?
- How does it feel to be a mathematician (and color)?
- Are there authorities in mathematics?
- What stories are important for your cultural connection with mathematics?
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- What is "right" and who said it?
The tasks for teachers sound much more progressive and scientific:
- Analyze how ancient mathematical knowledge was usurped by Western culture
- Explain how mathematics, science and technology continue to be used to oppress and marginalize people of color
- Criticize the system that prohibits access of colored minorities to mathematical knowledge
- Point out inequities inherent in the standardized grading system
- Explain how mathematics is used to exploit natural resources
- Explain how mathematics contributes to economic oppression.
Crazy from a new look at the calculator, we decided to fact-check reality and found that the program is just one of many examples of political hype in the exact sciences. For example, one of the oracles of the "new mathematics", professor at the University of Illinois Rochelle Gutierrez, writes in his book: "Mathematics itself is 'white'. Anyone who is recognized for the development of mathematics, who is good at mathematics, and who is considered part of the mathematical community is usually perceived as representatives of the white race … Concepts like the "Pythagorean theorem" or "pi" give the impression that mathematics was mostly created by the Greeks and other Europeans. " Professor Gutierrez believes that among mathematicians-professors, Caucasians are undeservedly the majority, and “minorities often encounter microaggression in mathematics classes,when they are judged by their ability to think abstractly. " Conclusion: "(mathematical) knowledge cannot be objective, it must be understood subjectively."
Dear friends, you may be people of retrograde views and still consider mathematics to be the international universal language of formulas, which does not divide people into white, black, yellow or brown.
But the world of the victorious PR, the victorious media and the victorious cultural conjuncture spun your (and ours, by the way) backward views on the surrounding reality on microphones and lenses. This world with a funny whoop repeatedly, about once a decade, is able to rewrite its own history, adding and removing any victory or defeat from it at will. And mathematicians in a separate territory, if necessary, he also sags to racial and gender sterility.
Academician V. I. Arnold on American Education: