Bridge Builders

[Kaos]

Yeah, these are the people I want building bridges.  The ones that are taught that how they "feel" about a math problem is more important than understanding how to solve it.   The ones taught that there's no such thing as a right answer to an equation, and furthermore to demand one is racist! 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy

We are the stupidest nation on earth.  

A purge is coming. We are going to idiot ourselves into one.  

[WiregrassTiger]

Yeah, these are the people I want building bridges.  The ones that are taught that how they "feel" about a math problem is more important than understanding how to solve it.  The ones taught that there's no such thing as a right answer to an equation, and furthermore to demand one is racist!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy

We are the stupidest nation on earth. 

A purge is coming. We are going to idiot ourselves into one. 

You are one extraordinarily racist white man.

[AUJarhead]

I don’t understand how “showing your work” or “being right” are racist. 

[Buzz Killington]

I don’t understand how “showing your work” or “being right” are racist.

And that's why you are such a racist.

I'm just hoping the whole double mask thing ends up thinning the herd somewhat.  Then maybe the non-Darwin finalists can start thinking for themselves again.

[Snaggletiger]

I was told there would be no math.

I'm with Jar, and everyone else.  How in the fickity fuck can you glean racism from working a math problem?

[WiregrassTiger]

I don’t understand how “showing your work” or “being right” are racist.

As Buzz pointed out, these are very racist questions. 

[WiregrassTiger]

I was told there would be no math.

I'm with Jar, and everyone else.  How in the fickity fuck can you glean racism from working a math problem?

You probably also believe that gorilla glue doesn’t need a warning about not using it as hairspray. Racist bastard.

[WiregrassTiger]

Some people need to understand that poor kids are just as bright as white kids. They do not need to prove it with an racist math problem.

[CCTAU]

You probably also believe that gorilla glue doesn’t need a warning about not using it as hairspray. Racist bastard.

Effem. Remove all warning labels and let it work itself out.

[bottomfeeder]

They won't be building/designing bridges. First, they'll have to pass Cal I, Cal II, Cal III (and Cal IV if Qtr hours). Then there's Differential Equations and Linear Algebra. That should eliminate most of them because the cream always rises to the top.

[Kaos]

They won't be building/designing bridges. First, they'll have to pass Cal I, Cal II, Cal III (and Cal IV if Qtr hours). Then there's Differential Equations and Linear Algebra. That should eliminate most of them because the cream always rises to the top.

RACIST!!! 

Requiring them to “pass” those classes is evidence of your white privilege. 

We must have a broader conversation of what this word “pass” means.  How it demeans students who are less abled. How that requirement is a barrier to single teenage mothers, people of color and immigrants.  How it impacts the esteem of students who took the time to write down an answer.  We must search for ways in which to interpret all answers as correct in their own way.  We must put aside this colonial expansionist view that a problem can have only one correct answer.  The answer to any problem may have multitudinous answer based on the life experiences of the student, zhis emotional state at the time of answer and other mitigating factors.  How dare you impose your faux white superiority by “correcting” zher!!

[CCTAU]

They won't be building/designing bridges. First, they'll have to pass Cal I, Cal II, Cal III (and Cal IV if Qtr hours). Then there's Differential Equations and Linear Algebra. That should eliminate most of them because the cream always rises to the top.

There was no Calc IV.

[bottomfeeder]

There was no Calc IV.

There was Calculus 4 in 85-88 at Faulkner State Junior College (Quarter Hours). There was also Cal-based Physics I, II, III. There was Fortran IV(77) on an IBM System 36 mainframe (they had RPG on it too along with COBOL which I did not take). PC: Turbo-Pascal.

One of my Professors, who graduated from Auburn University with a BS in EE, then later obtained his Master's Degree in EE (Thesis on Satellite Communications, DoD) from the Naval Postgraduate School was my Physics and Fortran Professor (He later went to work for the Air-Bus Engineering department).

[CCTAU]

There was Calculus 4 in the 85-88 at Faulkner State Junior College (Quarter Hours). There was also Cal-based Physics I, II, III. There was Fortran IV(77) on an IBM System 36 mainframe (they had RPG on it too along with COBOL which I did not take). PC: Turbo-Pascal.

One of my Professors, who graduated from Auburn University with a BS in EE, then later obtained his Master's Degree in EE (Thesis on Satellite Communications, DoD) from the Naval Postgraduate School was my Physics and Fortran Professor (He later went to work for the Air-Bus Engineering department).

There was no Calc IV at AU from 86-90...

[bottomfeeder]

There was no Calc IV at AU from 86-90...

I didn't go to AU, but all of my siblings did. My half-brother graduated from AU with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Two sisters have degrees from AU along with my father who graduated in 1962 in Building Science. He's the reason I'm an electrician.

After finishing at Faulkner State Jr. College, I was going to transfer to Troy, that is until they showed me how much money I was going to have to borrow to finish my degree in Computer Science/Engineering with a minor in Business Management (I already had $6000+ in debt for student loans I had to pay off. In the '80s, starting pay for Computer Programmers/Engineers was like $28.000/year right out of college. I couldn't get grants because I had VEAP, which was a suck-ass program from the military during the time I served, circa the Reagan years 1982-85 active duty). I chose to go to work because I found something I loved to do. Big mistake IMHO. Now, I'm old and the body isn't doing well. It's tough to keep up with those younger guys. I'm 58 years old.

[AUJarhead]

There was no Calc IV at AU from 86-90...

I thought you were pre-med?

[Snaggletiger]

I thought you were pre-med?

Pre-law.

[CCTAU]

Pre-law.

I never stooped that low.
I never got out of pre engineering.
Ended up with an applied math degree. Minor in mechanical.

[Buzz Killington]

They won't be building/designing bridges. First, they'll have to pass Cal I, Cal II, Cal III (and Cal IV if Qtr hours). Then there's Differential Equations and Linear Algebra. That should eliminate most of them because the cream always rises to the top.

There you go with that racist language again.  

[Kaos]

I wish I was making this shit up.  

Mathematics fields in the United States (US) were developed to preserve the elite status of White, upper-middle–class men (Castro, 2014; Leyva, 2017; McGee, 2016). Mainstream mathematics education plays a central role in this preservation and, consequently, in the marginalization of people of color (Battey & Leyva, 2016). Consistent racial ordering of mathematical achievement reifies a racialized hierarchy of mathematical ability, maintaining this status and effectively marginalizing Black, Indigenous, and Latinx students. We see this appear in White-normed measures such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and college readiness exams (e.g., SAT) with little to no change across decades of school reform efforts. This hierarchy squarely places Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students on the bottom, and White and Asian students at the top (Deyhle & Swisher, 1997)

TLDR version: Non-whites/Asians don't perform well on math assessments.  Therefore, racism.  

One of the authors of the 126-page examination of racism in math is from Vandy.  Her name is (I kid you not) Ebony McGee.