Re:A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction [pdf]
by motohagiography on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @04:17PM
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If nothing else this is a challenge to be charitable. The reaction question would be, is there a plausible version of this that is more than a vessel for an underlying Marxist dialectic on power with class just swapped for race? That's a conversation I sincerely think most people would engage in, and the reaction against it isn't racist, it's engaging on a level greater than dialectical materialism, and facilitating the discovery of truth instead of just struggle. Pretty much all the stuff that math is good for.
Math is ancient, and I don't dispute the value of presenting its ancient aspects. There are also traditions in it that probably limit its progress that would benefit from radically new teaching approaches. With generations of kids writing code, we could really be entering a golden age of math where the interest of young people is sparked by their access to tools that benefit from advanced math. There is a very positive way to approach it. One only hopes they can moderate the excesses of previous attempts.
The excess of a program like this could resemble similar limitations in the former USSR with examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Sov...
Math is ancient, and I don't dispute the value of presenting its ancient aspects. There are also traditions in it that probably limit its progress that would benefit from radically new teaching approaches. With generations of kids writing code, we could really be entering a golden age of math where the interest of young people is sparked by their access to tools that benefit from advanced math. There is a very positive way to approach it. One only hopes they can moderate the excesses of previous attempts.