Honest question: How is LatinX pronounced? Am I supposed to say "Latin
Ex" or "Latinks"?
On 2/12/2021 12:47 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-math-course-racism-white-supremacy-teachers
<https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-math-course-racism-white-supremacy-teachers>
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy
<https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy>
*From:* Carl Peterson
*Sent:* Friday, February 12, 2021 10:18 AM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT possibly political
Not sure of your source but I think you misunderstand.
https://www.mathnasium.com/littleton-news-when-one-correct-math-answer-is-not-enough
<https://www.mathnasium.com/littleton-news-when-one-correct-math-answer-is-not-enough>
"Reframing the above problem to encourage divergent thinking might
look something like this:
“Find the sum of 32 + 5 and then create more equations that have the
same sum.”
Theoretically, someone could keep thinking about this problem forever
and generate infinite correct answers."
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:32 AM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]>
wrote:
Just read of a push to teach a “new math” the encourages multiple
“correct answers” to math problems and eliminates “show your
work”. Supposedly cleanses math teaching from institutional racism.
OK, irrespective of your genetics, heritage, cultural backgropund
and gender choices, if I tell an employee to go read the
sequentials off of a reel of cable and tell me how much is left,
they better get one frigging answer, the one and only correct answer.
So I am an old fat entitled unwoke white guy. By some accounts
automatically racist. I don’t feel that way, but again I am
unwoke (whatever in the hell that means) so I wouldn’t know.
I simply don’t get how getting the one and only right answer in
math class is institutional racism. Can you imagine someone that
came up through schools that allow this trying to get into an
engineering program? Now who is suppressing whom...
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