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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: CG6468 on May 09, 2011, 03:09:43 PM
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The teacher's - oops, pardon me - "educator's" guide to the new radical math.
I. Examples of "Social Justice Math" Topics (partial list):
There are at least two related ideas behind "Social Justice Math". The first is that you can use mathematics to teach and learn about issues of social and economic justice. The second is that you can learn math through the study of social justice issues - the development of mathematical literacy itself being an incredibly important social justice issue.
Too complex to quote. And take a look at the Social Justice Topics Chart!
Social Justice Math (http://www.radicalmath.org/main.php?id=SocialJusticeMath)
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Jimmy has 2 apples, the greedy bastard,. You steal them both and sell one to Leroy. How much pot can you buy?
a. a lot
b. some
c. a bale
d. teacher is a DUmb bitch
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(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/racism.jpg) :thatsright:
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Jimmy has 2 apples, the greedy bastard,. You steal them both and sell one to Leroy. How much pot can you buy?
a. a lot
b. some
c. a bale
d. teacher is a DUmb bitch
E) Not as much as if you sold both apples
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There is no such thing as "social justice."
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(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/racism.jpg) :thatsright:
Depending on where that test was given the student probably got bonus points or an extra smiley face if (a victim of) a student of outcome based education.
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"Social justice"?!? I love how liberals and progressives throw those words around.
:jerkit: :jerkit:
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One example from the social justice teaching chart:
Geometry:
• Liquor Stores
o Look at how many liquor stores are within a 1-mile radius or within 5 blocks of your school. This can be compared with schools in other neighborhoods.
:rotf:
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Is there any wonder who is responsible for the downfall of our educational system? ::)
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Is there any wonder who is responsible for the downfall of our educational system? ::)
I think all of us are. We just became too complacent and allowed the libs to steal our country, beginning with the government schools.
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I think all of us are. We just became too complacent and allowed the libs to steal our country, beginning with the government schools.
It goes a little deeper than complacency. We heard them tell us for 50 years, "But it's for the children!!!" and like gullible fools, we believed them.
Hell, some of us still do. Come to find out Scoob's mom is an O-bot. Not even worth the effort.
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It goes a little deeper than complacency. We heard them tell us for 50 years, "But it's for the children!!!" and like gullible fools, we believed them.
Hell, some of us still do. Come to find out Scoob's mom is an O-bot. Not even worth the effort.
"It's for the children" is a mantra, but it's a lie. It's for power.
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It goes a little deeper than complacency. We heard them tell us for 50 years, "But it's for the children!!!" and like gullible fools, we believed them.
Hell, some of us still do. Come to find out Scoob's mom is an O-bot. Not even worth the effort.
There's a nice Hitler quote some where about using "It's for the children" to put over the Nazi cause onto the German public.
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One example from the social justice teaching chart:
Geometry:
• Liquor Stores
o Look at how many liquor stores are within a 1-mile radius or within 5 blocks of your school. This can be compared with schools in other neighborhoods.
:rotf:
Oh, FFS! Why, oh, why do people stand for this kind of blatant, unabashed indoctrination of children?
The blog is the pièce de résistance! Every issue can be addressed and understood with math!
http://radicalmath.blogspot.com/2008/04/relevance-of-police-brutality.html
Sadly, this morning's news also brought word of the acquittal of the NYPD cops who killed Sean Bell. In New York City, the percentage of people killed by police who were Black was at least double that of their share of the city’s total population, according to a study done by ColorLines Magazine and The Chicago Reporter. (View article here).
We can use mathematics to understood, quantify, and address (in some ways) disparities like these that are all too relevant to our students. Or, maybe we should just heed the advice of our friends in Ohio, solve for t, and go on our merry way.
*facepalm*
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I recently read somewhere that statisticians can extrapolate expected prison populations in 10 years based on third grade literacy rates. It seems that if teachers really cared about improving the future for their students they would go back to insuring that they know the basics of educations (reading, writing, arithmetic) and leave all the fluffy stuff for later in life.
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I recently read somewhere that statisticians can extrapolate expected prison populations in 10 years based on third grade literacy rates. It seems that if teachers really cared about improving the future for their students they would go back to insuring that they know the basics of educations (reading, writing, arithmetic) and leave all the fluffy stuff for later in life.
The left needs cradle to grave indoctrination.
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I recently read somewhere that statisticians can extrapolate expected prison populations in 10 years based on third grade literacy rates. It seems that if teachers really cared about improving the future for their students they would go back to insuring that they know the basics of educations (reading, writing, arithmetic) and leave all the fluffy stuff for later in life.
But that's not as fun as blaming society for victimization. / DUmmie teacher
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The left like to point out how low the US ranks in education compared to the rest of the world, but they don't like to see comparisons of dollars spent. Why is that? It proves that money isn't the problem, but the system that is failing.
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The left like to point out how low the US ranks in education compared to the rest of the world, but they don't like to see comparisons of dollars spent. Why is that? It proves that money isn't the problem, but the system that is failing.
Absolutely; of course what we measure is how much each district spends per kid in a simple ratio of all expenses divided by the number of kids, not what actually gets spent educating each kid.
When I lived in NJ, the State took over the Camden schools because their spending 'per student' was among the highest, and their results were among the poorest (Maybe the actual worst-prize winner, but I don't recall for sure). The displaced Board and administration had milked the entire thing in a typical inner-city Democrat thug fashion to give themselves District-owned SUVs, gas cards, take 'Study trips' to far-flung locations like Hawaii, and countless other perks and bennies, as well as lavish salaries, giving the unions what they wanted to buy off any complaints from them. Any teachers who actually cared about what was going on pretty much had no voice because the administration could get rid of them if they became annoying, and the administration could also count on the union to sell out any dissident teachers who tried to rock the boat.
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"It's for the children" is a mantra, but it's a lie. It's for power.
You're right. It's for the "power" of the teacher unions.
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There is no such thing as "social justice."
Two words that each mean something separately, but when combined mean nothing, really.
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More at a little social-engineering math.