Last night on MSNBC something incredible happened. Just watch the clip: If you can’t watch it, here’s a transcript: NY TIMES MARA GAY: Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money [Bloomberg] spent he could’ve given every American a million dollars. BRIAN WILLIAMS: I’ve got it, let’s put it up on the screen. When I […] More
A Canadian high school switched to “Africentric Math” to attract black students to go into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math(STEM) fields, according to Canadian Broadcasting’s(CBC) Wednesday report. From Daily Caller: Nova Scotia’s Auburn Drive High School math teachers are skipping their previous eurocentric approach to teaching mathematics so black students will gain more interest in the […] More
Police were called to Louisiana’s Oberlin High School on February 20 after a student suggested that a “math symbol looked like a gun.” From Breitbart: The incident occurred approximately one week after 17 people were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The Sacramento Bee reported that the symbol was widely […] More
A math education professor at the University of Illinois says the ability to solve geometry and algebra problems and teaching such subjects perpetuates so-called white privilege. Do you think mathematics is part of a system that perpetuates white privilege? More
