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Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:22 UTC The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is donating a million dollars toward a group that is attempting to "dismantle white supremacy" in grade school math. The creators behind this effort are a cavalcade of west coast academics from places such as Loyola Marymount University and University of California, among others. A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction is a five-stage lesson plan that prioritizes Black, Latinx, and Multilingual middle school students and the barriers in education they might face. By that the group defines it as being "white supremacy culture." ...

It’s nuts!  Oregon’s Department of Education has developed a teaching resource entitled, “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” aimed at removing racism from 6th-8th-grade math.  Seems that math + traditional teaching methods = white supremacy!

What's True In a newsletter to math teachers, ODE promoted an independent project that has materials on its website that read, "White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when ... students are required to 'show their work.'" What's False The ODE did not explicitly tell teachers that requiring students to "show their work" in math class was a form of white supremacy. Rather, the department told Snopes that expanding the ways in which teachers make students explain their question-answering process beyond the written word and numbers could help eliminate racial and language ...