Just this weekend, this editor looked at a published paper presented at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings conference called, “Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice.” We’ve been trying to remove “whiteness” from mathematics. Asking students in math class to “show their work” is…
Minnesota wants to make sure math isn’t racist. Consequently, the state’s come up with a crafty plan. The Minnesota Department of Education has published its second edition of the “K–12 Academic Standards in Mathematics,” and they aren’t your grandma’s guidelines. The proposal’s introduction makes matters clear: In the arena of arithmetic instruction, learning about numbers…
What would you do if your school made you confess to a crime? To participate in a recent Zoom call, students at Toronto’s George Brown College were reportedly given a choice: Sign an admission of white-privilege land theft, or lose the opportunity to take part. It seems an odd administrative string, since attendees had paid…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) let loose on Instagram Sunday, on a variety of different issues. If we want to understand why the Democrats have shifted so far to the left, it’s things like the utter vacuousness of people like AOC, who don’t seem to understand the most basic principles of our government. For her, everything…