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Rochelle Gutierrez, who teaches “Sociopolitical Perspectives on Mathematics and Science Education” at the University of Illinois: "YES! This attends to the Cultures/Histories dimension of RM (addressing Western/Eurocentric maths). And, we also want to attend to the Living Practice dimension (which is more about imagining a version that builds upon ancestral knowings, but does not yet exist)."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Let me say that there is no, NO racial aspect in Math unless one injects it!
I see that the regressives are becoming progressively more insane!
agree with susan … things are gonna get more fun on the roadways of the past …oops i mean future
Would anyone care to drive over a bridge designed by the 2+2=5 engineering grads?
Don’t worry, graduates of these problems won’t be designing bridges. Anti-racist math’s only career trajectory is prison or community activist.
Or a college professor apparently.
Electricity is eurocentric. Time to turn off all the lights. Start at the universities.
For the Illinois (“where’s mine”) machine the MATH of full accrual accounting is obviously a systemically racist concept!!! Debts for the dummies to stupid to grab for all they can get from their neighbor…
That U of I prof’s bio says this: Her current research projects focus upon: developing in pre-service teachers the knowledge and disposition to teach powerful mathematics to urban students; the roles of uncertainty, tensions, and “Nepantla” in teaching; and the political knowledge (and forms of creative insubordination) that mathematics teachers need to effectively “rehumanize” mathematics in an era of high-stakes education. She also builds upon Indigenous principles and has argued for a new form of mathematics where humans are no long centered. This form of mathematics is referred to as living mathematx.https://education.illinois.edu/faculty/rochelle-gutierrez
Whaaatt? Is she taking word salad lessons from Kamala?
“Nepantla?” Found the definition and I’m still in the dark about what it means.
It’s a copout. “In the middle” that means no one is wrong and thus, no one has to actually do the work to get it right. See “live your truth.”
Maybe we’ve stumble onto how the Illinois budget is put together. Nepantia accounting principles.
The real pension debt is Nepantla. somewhere between OMG and holy schite.
She has a lovely diagram that explains it all lol: https://twitter.com/RG1gal/status/1166932287449178119
37 page resume! And I think the 15 years she spent stuck as a mere associate professor broke her.
The “modern” form of zero was recognized by a Persian scholar in 8th century Baghdad. Without zero, modern mathematics could not exist. Certainly, scholars throughout the centuries have built on these mathematical concepts, exemplified by Newton’s creation of calculus. But it is folly to suggest that math is solely a European development. My daughter went to one of the best math and science high schools in the nation, and a book on the history of zero was required reading the summer before 9th grade. See below: From India, the zero made its way to China and back to the Middle… Read more »
Al-Jebra is algebra. Or so the scholars try to convince me.
Wow. That diagram is something else. Remind me again why taxpayers support institutions that hire these people.
There’s been wide gaps in math scores between Asians and everyone else for 100 years. Our ‘educators’ tried to fix these disparities by switching to common core math which only made things worse. When that failed, there’s always the old standby “RACIST!”. It’s so sad that academia encourages this kind of nonsense.
Yup, and Asians should be mad as hell about how they are discriminated against, especially in college admissions. They are outperforming the rest of us despite past obstacles because they work hard and earn it.
They are very mad. But they’ll never stop voting Democrat. Many of them don’t even know any Republicans.
Living mathematx , also known as utter nonsense! These people are truly dangerous!.