A peek at the new grievance-driven math

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 28, 2018

Culture, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, science education}

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Coming soon to tax-funded schools near you: 😉

A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.

Brought to us by the folk behind Algebra Is Racist and Objectivity is Sexist.

A gift to incompetent teachers, timeserving bureaucrats, and sleazy politicians everywhere.

See also: Algebra is racist.

Objectivity is sexist.

and

The war on freedom is rotting our intellectual life: Intersectionality

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News, unfortunately, satire is losing its punch because reality is outpacing it. We are looking at a Plato's Cave, shadow-show world. KFkairosfocus_{May 29, 2018
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Things are going to slide, slide in all directions. There won't nothing you can measure anymore. The Prophet Cohen.tribune7_{May 28, 2018
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kairosfocus at 1, glad you work here and not at that school board. Wish we could be sure it was fiction. Did you ever hear of Bill Dembski's book, It takes Ganas, about the exemplary Hispanic math teacher whose work in helping students challenged by their social background learn was completely undone by the bureaucracy?News_{May 28, 2018
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Math is the logic of structure and quantity, which makes it inherently objective. Period.kairosfocus_{May 28, 2018
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