Minnesota wants to make sure math isn’t racist. Consequently, the state’s come up with a crafty plan.
The Minnesota Department of Education has published its second edition of the “K–12 Academic Standards in Mathematics,” and they aren’t your grandma’s guidelines.
The proposal’s introduction makes matters clear: In the arena of arithmetic instruction, learning about numbers is no longer enough.
[T]he Mathematics Standards Review Committee has been in the process of reviewing the 2007 Minnesota K–12 Academic Standards Mathematics… … In addition to the timing of the mathematics review, the statute, as stated in subdivision 4a, directs the commissioner to “include the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities as related to the academic standards during the review and revision of the required academic standards.”
Add some multiculturism to your mix:
Mathematical knowledge is common to everyone. Mathematics is an integral part of everyday life. It is also rooted across all cultures.
The guidelines list seven goals toward creating “citizenship-ready students.”
In part, participants of the public program will…
- Ask questions, explore patterns and be curious to understand their world.
- You must be persistent, flexible, and creative in solving problems.
But there’s more to life than math. Therefore, the ciphering classes should put more emphasis on social justice than math.
- Collaborate with cultural perspectives and traditions like and unlike one’s own, allowing students to make sense of mathematical concepts and value various mathematical identities connected to lived experiences.
- Problems related to language, culture, stories, and place.
Among recommended “anchor standards,” American Indians receive special endorsement. The science of proportion should be taught to children.
- Proper proportional reasoning:Use graphs, tables and symbols to represent proportional relationships in real-world and mathematical situations. This is especially true in Anishinaabe and Dakota communities.
And don’t forget patterns, measurements, geometry, and finances:
- The Patterns of RelationshipsVerbal descriptions, generalizations or tables can be used to connect and represent mathematical patterns. You can use representations in various cultures to solve problems, both mathematical and real-world, particularly in Anishinaabe, Dakota, and Anishinaabe historical communities.
- Measurement:You can measure using many tools, units and systems in different cultures. Anishinaabe tribes
- Geometry:For mathematical reasoning and justifications of geometric relationships, it is important to analyze geometric shapes. Geometric modeling and visualization can be used to solve problems in many cultures, including Anishinaabe and Dakota communities.
- Financial Literacy:Use appropriate technology to analyze and solve financial problems. You can use mathematical concepts in order to analyze financial problems and make intelligent decisions regarding how you earn, track and save money.
Where school’s awokening is concerned, Minnesota is far from alone:
School District Hosts Year-Long Anti-Whiteness Training to Fight ‘Curricular Violence’ in Math
Arizona State University Dean Writes 350+ Pages Book About How Writing is White Supremacy
In Order to Attack ‘Systemic Racism,’ a School Eliminates Failure and Time Constraints
Excellence in Equity: California Eyes Obliterating ‘Bias’ by Getting Rid of Grades
English Teachers Association Will ‘Decenter Book Reading and Essay Writing’ as It Addresses ‘Systemic Inequalities and Social Justice’
University President Sends a Letter Announcing the School’s Top Priority: Racial Justice and Equity
Once education was a place where students could develop their academic skills and be able to think for themselves. However, these primary functions have since been relegated to secondary ones. Society has problems, and academia’s devised solutions. Institutions are increasingly promoting a single view and moving us towards oneness. The result: “citizenship-ready students.” If you want kids to learn, you have to school them.
No area of monolithic authority is more important than the race. Whereas colorblindness was once considered scholarly, we’ve graduated to something Neue old:
The Federal Government Makes It Official: Colorblindness Is Racisthttps://t.co/BY9eoI1pRz
— Alex Parker (@alexparker1984) February 27, 2022
Social justice can be a slippery slope: The privileged pale is reduced, allowing for an elevation of previously oppressed pigment.
In the end, courtesy of America’s intensifying focus on race — which is to say, an emphasis on our differences — the math of tomorrow may not offer adequate instruction in addition or subtraction; but it’ll likely deftly teach division.
-ALEX
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