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The Florida Department of Education announced Friday the state has rejected more than 50 math textbooks from next school year's curriculum, citing references to critical race theory among reasons for the rejections.

In a news release, the department stated 54 out of 132 of the textbook submissions would not be added to the state's adopted list because they did not adhere to Florida's new standards or contained prohibited topics.
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Yes, math books with 0 references to CRT have been rejected because of CRT. Much like how the lack of evidence of voter fraud is justification for the restrictions in voting.

There also appears to be anger over "common core".
Florida Statement said:
It is unfortunate that several publishers, especially at the elementary school grade levels, have ignored this clear communication and have attempted to slip rebranded instructional materials based on Common Core Standards into Florida’s classrooms, while others have included prohibited and divisive concepts such as the tenants of CRT or other unsolicited strategies of indoctrination – despite FDOE’s prior notification.
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Common core mathematics generally works on providing students the ability to manipulate numbers like an engineer does, to calculate in the mind. This challenges some people because they suck at math and think that alternate methods of calculation are wrong because they don't know or understand them.
 
I have been meaning to look for examples but have not got around to it.

It has been a long complaint by blacks that even math can be racist is some ways. It was an early objection to standardized tests like SAT. My first thought it is a conservative rection to the attempted insertion of progressive ideology into public school texts.

Not with math, there have been examples locally of CRT showing up in grammar school books.

From where I sit in the PNW it is the radical progressiviation not the radical conservativest.

To me six of one half a dozen of the other.
 
steve_bank said:
I have been meaning to look for examples but have not got around to it.

It has been a long complaint by blacks that even math can be racist is some ways. It was an early objection to standardized tests like SAT. My first thought it is a conservative rection to the attempted insertion of progressive ideology into public school texts.
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I've yet to see any hint of progressive ideology in a math assignment.
steve_bank said:
Not with math, there have been examples locally of CRT showing up in grammar school books.
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Which is why you were able to quickly cite a number of examples... but forgot to actually do so? And of course, when you say "CRT", you mean something that is not "CRT", because CRT is a complicated critical delving into laws and government, something most children are not educated enough to even begin looking into.
 
There have been substantial studies of the ways that early math education is compromised by racial bias, but the focus is almost always on the implicit bias of educators and the assumed cultural stance of things like narrative questions. Why would anyone write about CRT in a math textbook?

I am 100% certain that what is actually happening is this: parents are reading the little blurb you always find in the instructor edition of a text (which usually hypes the book and explains the modernity and social consciousnessness of its approach) and assuming that means there's CRT inside. To a Florida conservative, a sentence like "this edition offers a more diverse set of word problems relevant to students of multiple racial and ethnic backgrounds" would be more than enough to make them panic. It says race and diverse in it, it must be CRT math. If you don't know what CRT is, almost anything could be CRT.
 
Politesse said:
I am 100% certain that what is actually happening is this: parents are reading the little blurb you always find in the instructor edition of a text (which usually hypes the book and explains the modernity and social consciousnessness of its approach) and assuming that means there's CRT inside.
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I strongly suspect that parents haven't even read that intro.
People who benefit from stirring up divisiveness are telling the parents that it's in there.
Tom
 
At the risk of being even more cynical,

I could see this as a form of "fishing". People gullible enough to believe claims that elementary school math textbooks contain socio-political teachings might be gullible enough to donate money to something, if correctly targeted. Or sold something. Or otherwise parted from their money.

It's a regular thing, especially on the internet.
Tom
 
I dunno. Wokeness destroys everything it touches.

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Trausti said:
Politesse said:
Because god forbid we teach mathematics as a topic with contextually meaningful applications...
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Can there be at least one subject that you ideologies leave alone?
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Are you made to feel insecure by the fact that lesson plans written by teachers in K-12 schools in Seattle Washington might include the information that people aside from white men developed and used mathematics?
 
Trausti said:
Politesse said:
Because god forbid we teach mathematics as a topic with contextually meaningful applications...
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Can there be at least one subject that you ideologies leave alone?
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More to the point,
If adding "contextually meaningful" anything interferes with learning basics like math, it's wrong to do so.
Tom
 
Toni said:
Trausti said:
Politesse said:
Because god forbid we teach mathematics as a topic with contextually meaningful applications...
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Can there be at least one subject that you ideologies leave alone?
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Are you made to feel insecure by the fact that lesson plans written by teachers in K-12 schools in Seattle Washington might include the information that people aside from white men developed and used mathematics, in fact, long before white men did?
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That's history, not math.
Definitely out of place in a math class.
Tom
 
Toni said:
Trausti said:
Politesse said:
Because god forbid we teach mathematics as a topic with contextually meaningful applications...
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Can there be at least one subject that you ideologies leave alone?
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Are you made to feel insecure by the fact that lesson plans written by teachers in K-12 schools in Seattle Washington might include the information that people aside from white men developed and used mathematics?
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What does that matter if the kid can't do the math? Are you expecting some sort of eureka moment when he learns about mathematicians in Sumer? Just don't get why progressives are so intent on dumbing down education.
 
Trausti said:
Toni said:
Trausti said:
Politesse said:
Because god forbid we teach mathematics as a topic with contextually meaningful applications...
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Can there be at least one subject that you ideologies leave alone?
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Are you made to feel insecure by the fact that lesson plans written by teachers in K-12 schools in Seattle Washington might include the information that people aside from white men developed and used mathematics?
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What does that matter if the kid can't do the math? Are you expecting some sort of eureka moment when he learns about mathematicians in Sumer? Just don't get why progressives are so intent on dumbing down education.
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How are you going from: People in Egypt used mathematics in order to construct the pyramids to kids can’t do math?
 
ZiprHead said:
socialstudies/pubdocs/Math%20SDS%20ES%20Framework.pdf

Anyone else notice where this document is filed?
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That's because it's a "Math Ethnic Studies" learning framework.

That morons with an agenda (and with zero connection to the pupils, staff, or institutions to which the framework applies) prefer to misread the title as "Math (Ethnic Studies)" is frighteningly unsurprising.

When you're convinced that tbe Boogeyman is out to get you, every creak of the floorboards is sinister and terrifying. Reasonable and rational explanations need not apply.
 
steve_bank said:
I have been meaning to look for examples but have not got around to it.

It has been a long complaint by blacks that even math can be racist is some ways. It was an early objection to standardized tests like SAT. My first thought it is a conservative rection to the attempted insertion of progressive ideology into public school texts.

Not with math, there have been examples locally of CRT showing up in grammar school books.

From where I sit in the PNW it is the radical progressiviation not the radical conservativest.

To me six of one half a dozen of the other.
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Such bias is often claimed, rarely shown.

The SAT did have a slight issue with vocabulary--they deliberately use a lot of uncommon words as a proxy test for how widely read a student is and some of those uncommon words weren't as uncommon for some groups. I'm not aware of any other biases that have actually been shown.
 
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