One suspects that disliking Newton wouldn’t mean embracing widespread innumeracy. But the trend to deplatforming major math and science figures will likely end no other way. Why study what one is taught to despise?
Tag: war on math
Jonathan Bartlett: Antiracism in Math Promotes Racism and Bad Math
Bartlett: … one thing that is helpful for parents, students, and teachers is for students to show their work. I know it can be hard to get students to do this. My own children hate to do it. However, being explicit about the steps in their reasoning is important for a number of reasons. First, showing their work helps students with harder problems… So, what does Equitable Math say about this practice? According to their published guide, “White supremacy culture shows up in math class when students are required to show their work”
The war on math continues, ramps up
It feels odd to hear math, a multi-ethnic enterprise for as long as we have had written records, described as “white supremacy.”
Chronicles of the war on math: Why math is racist
Wethinks that the big winners are teachers who can’t teach, protected by unions. The big losers are kids who leave school innumerate and must cope with a workplace that no longer needs innumerate people. We have machines now.
Rob Sheldon responds to News’s recent Salvo article, “War on Math”
Sheldon: Talking to a retired St Louis public high school math teacher, the battle was first enjoined 30 years ago over Geometry–eliminating it from the curriculum. Why? Because it was the only course that taught logic, he said.
My “War on Math’ article at Salvo
Like most opponents, [a math teacher friend] attempts logical refutations. But logic is the prime target in the war. A bit of recent history might help…
Mathematical Association of America gone Woke: Math is created by humans
Math is not, of course, created by humans but only recognized by humans—a critical distinction. 2 + 2 = 4, even if the Woke burn down research labs under the banner of “2 + 2 = 5!” The biggest losers will, of course, be those with the fewest private resources when public ones are destroyed.
Mathematicians debate the war on math
Carlo Rovelli stops short of saying that 2+2=5 but the article gives every sense that many would love to go there if only they could get some kind of a nudge. It is far to say that the war on Platonism is just the war on math, PhD version.
At New Scientist: Fuzzy law threatens mathematics
New Scientist — as a culture — would probably always been happier joining the war on math, and this sounds like a way of testing the waters. But we shall see.
New podcast offers blatant heresy: Two plus two make four
James Lindsay, one of Peter Boghossian’s fellow hoaxers of the Woke folk, discusses the war on math in this podcast.
Arithmetic as racism: A teacher’s reflections on the progressive war on math
Mahlberg: English philosopher G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) saw the early signs of the West’s abandonment of objective truth, and in a cheeky tone, he warned: We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green…
Another Woke math educator: Math is “white supremacist patriarchy”
Carr apparently believes that the people who discovered theorems in math actually invented them the way a novelist writes a novel.
One of Boghossian’s hoaxers started the Woke on the 2 plus 2 equals five drive?
Meanwhile, Lindsay has a blog keeping track of Woke folk and other unfunny crazies, where he says he himself might have started off the 2 + 2 = 5 crazy, intending only to explain to someone how the Woke think.
Nancy Pearcey: A dispatch from the Woke war on math
Nancy Pearcey: Critical theorists argue that mathematics is just another arbitrary human creation that has been used to privilege certain groups while excluding others.