Yeah, that is what got me too. We all know there are a bunch of ways to arrive at the right answer. But in math, most of the time there is one and only one right answer. Or in the cases of roots, you can have two right elements of the solution but you need both of them to constitute the one right answer.
From: Mathew Howard Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 11:17 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT possibly political I think this quote pretty much tells you all you need to know: "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict." If they were talking about teaching different methods of arriving at the correct answer, that's a fair discussion. I think it's probably true that there are differences in the way individual's brains work that make some methods work better for some people than others (although I seriously doubt that has anything to do with race, but it could very well be related to cultural and linguistic background), so there's a reasonable argument for saying that we should look at different methods of arriving at the correct answer, but I'm pretty sure that math is one area where there is in fact always a right and wrong answer. On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:54 AM Cameron Crum <[email protected]> wrote: Well if that doesn't spell it out for you, I don't know what does. I was half kidding in my response earlier, but looks like it was spot on now. We are doomed if this crap is allowed to proceed. On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:48 AM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-math-course-racism-white-supremacy-teachers 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 "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... -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Carl Peterson PORT NETWORKS 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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