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Originally Posted by Quartz_MJC
Funny but sad. A metric to watch is the Science and engineering accreditation boards for universities. These boards set a prescribed curriculum. When these boards are infected by the woke virus and math and such no longer needed for accreditation we are fucked. I'll go one step further accreditation will be seen as racist. Infract the only accreditation required will woke curriculum . Wonder if China and Russia have this problem?
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Ethnomathematics is just another stepping stone in the dumbing down of America's youth which sets them on a path towards servitude and ineptitude.
TZ's post brought to mind Common Core math and the confusion it creates for many, and how it has short circuited many youth including my son. Nothing like getting every answer correct only to fail because you didn't use the prescribed process. I work for a person who was an engineer at Skunkworks who donated his time to teach math to a bunch of youth (like my son) who had difficulties with math. By the end of his course all but one or two kids aced the final. The facility was amazed at what he had accomplished until he told them how he accomplished this feat.......old school teaching! He was told that was verboten and they were not allowed to teach in that manner.
His response was something to the effect of 'Do you want them to learn the basic of math, or would you rather them fail because they don't use the prescribed process'.
Worse yet the schools can't leave a child behind so they graduate kids who do not understand the basics and will have a extremely difficult time succeeding in the real world.
I would wager that China, Russia and India are already taking full advantage of this decline. Hell, they probably gave grants to Academia to create these new and improved teaching methods.