CletusWilbury
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White privilege bolstered by teaching math, university professor says Fox News
Questioning, did Rochelle Gutierrez actually write this?
Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods
Yes, she did. But reading further she's not recommending changing the curriculum. She is suggesting teachers be aware of the this reality.
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Why (Urban) Mathematics Teachers Need Political Knowledge
curricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans
Questioning, did Rochelle Gutierrez actually write this?
Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods
Yes, she did. But reading further she's not recommending changing the curriculum. She is suggesting teachers be aware of the this reality.
Easier source to copy and paste:
Why (Urban) Mathematics Teachers Need Political Knowledge
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Union High, for example, was a Chicago school with 87% of students qualifying
for free or reduced-price meals, but where 45% of the senior class was taking
calculus; however, its gains in students mathematical understanding and percentages
of seniors taking calculus were derailed by district politics and a back-tobasics
movement ...Even though teachers
were successful at making mathematics meaningful to students, getting students
to take large numbers of mathematics courses (especially advanced courses), and
to develop robust mathematical identities, administrators were intent on getting
teachers to focus on test scores to the exclusion of all other efforts.
...Some political
knowledge extended teachers’ efforts for a few years.
...
Eventually, fed up with the politics and stripped of their professional
judgment, several teachers left the school.
...