Notice how they didn't say in the Oregon ethnomathematics toolkit that "the concept of mathematics being objectively true is *objectively* false." Lol at "unequivocally."

Let's see what else is in this shitshow 82-page document that either derives from or shares a source with the Seattle/Washington ethnomathematics program instantiated in 2019. Some real doozies here already.

"Praxis" is Marx's term for applying Theory. "Critical" means "Critical Theory."

"This thinking creates meritocracy in the classroom," as a bad thing.

Lmao.

Not "did anyone learn math?" Just garbage about antiracism, accountability, and doing Critical Theory instead of teaching math.

It looks like this is the backbone of reflection time in every unit. Complete distortion of priorities off subject competence and into "antiracism" and Critical Theory.

As a former math teacher, for the love of God, don't do this. Sequential mastery is actually necessary through the fundamentals.

The "banking model" of education is a crap idea from Paulo Freire, the Brazilian grandfather of critical pedagogy (Critical Theory as education). It's plain these activists know virtually nothing about education.

Remember, the italicized words, "quantity over quality," "sense of urgency," "objectivity," and "right to comfort" are said to be features of "white supremacy culture" according to the Woke, and they are therefore to be deconstructed (in math class).

Here they cite math education activist Rochelle Gutierrez, who has no degrees in math at any level and who has recommended a complete revolution in math and math ed because equity isn't enough, teaching "a living mathematx," and learning math from plants.

Here's a recent thread about how MIT is also citing the completely unqualified radical nut Gutierrez for utter nonsense about math and math ed, with receipts. https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1356788647522140160?s=19

In the usual Critical Theory style, here, thinking this is all a horrible idea is framed as "defensiveness," another trait of "white supremacy culture." This allows them to treat all pushback as proof that they're right and to manipulate their marks into suppressing reservations.

More Gutierrez, an obvious nutjob who doesn't know what she's talking about and deliberately misunderstands her own subject to say fun but idiotic revolutionary things.

Getting a bit difficult to even. It's very obvious that this is about turning everything into social sciences with an activist agenda, even math. This is a road to incompetence paved by incompetents.

Here's the obligatory "grades are white supremacist" part.

Showing your work is "white supremacist culture."

I laughed at this wording about the real world. The other part is "how do we make this more collectivist and/or communist and use it to push those ideologies—in math class?"

Anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist (these are Neo-Marxist rhetoric), and expressly against independent thought.

Uh oh. LOL. Right answers: white supremacist. Explicit call to care less about precision and accuracy, which is the opposite of what Chinese students are learning about missiles and artillery, et cetera.

LOL

If kids like me were running the world... McWorld!! HEY, IT COULD HAPPEN!
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Siri, how did we get into this mess in the first place?

I have to stop even though I'm near the bottom. I ran out of evens and can no longer even at all with this.

Went to the website off a hot tip. Scrolled down to the bottom.

How about that.

Link: https://equitablemath.org/