Woke Math Won’t Deliver Equity | RealClearPolitics
If California approves the framework, expect it to be a guide for textbooks used across the land. This is what it looks like.
The framework features a vignette about a fifth grade teacher named Ms. Ross who focuses on “developing her students’ sociopolitical consciousness” through language and math. Her class is reading a book about a “10-year-old transgender fourth grader and her struggles with acceptance among friends and family” — which provides a platform for math questions.
To wit: “Amie used 7/9 yard of ribbon in her dress. Jasmine used 5/6 yard of ribbon in her dress. Which girl used more ribbon? How much more did she use?”
So, yes, there are legitimate math exercises in there, but also a lot of ideology.
An open letter from more than 1,000 academics and educators protests that the draft framework seeks to “de-mathematize math” by drowning math in “an endless river of new pedagogical fads” where there should be arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus.
I wonder if they will ever get to requiring that woke law be taught to our innocent students (well, most of them) in law school. The ABA is certainly trying. I’m guessing it will be after my retirement, if at all. But so far, I’ve been too optimistic.