Dennis Prager reads from Fox News' [and the original sources as well] article: "Oregon Promotes Teacher Program That Seeks to Undo 'Racism In Mathematics'" ([ Ссылка ]). The idea that Mathematics can be used to promote "equity" is older than this idea... see my, "Chicago Teachers Union President Politicizes Math" ([ Ссылка ]).
However, the best article I read so far on the topic is over at MISES INSTITUTE ([ Ссылка ]): "𝘐𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵? 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦"
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....✦ “From 3000 BC the Mesopotamian states of Sumer, Akkad and Assyria, together with Ancient Egypt and Ebla[,] began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry.”
✦ “Chinese mathematics made early contributions, including a place value system and the first use of negative numbers.”
✦ “The Hindu-Arabic numeral system and the rules for the use of its operations, in use throughout the world today, evolved over the course of the first millennium AD in India and were transmitted to the Western world via Islamic mathematics…. Islamic mathematics, in turn, developed and expanded the mathematics known to these civilizations. Contemporaneous with but independent of these traditions were the mathematics developed by the Maya civilization of Mexico and Central America, where the concept of zero was given a standard symbol in Maya numerals.”
✦ “[O]ur knowledge of Babylonian mathematics is derived from more than 400 clay tablets…. Written in Cuneiform script, tablets were inscribed whilst the clay was moist, and baked hard in an oven or by the heat of the sun. Some of these appear to be graded homework.”
✦ “Sumerians wrote multiplication tables on clay tablets and dealt with geometrical exercises and division problems.”
✦ “The most extensive Egyptian mathematical text is the Rhind papyrus, dated to c. 1650 BC but likely a copy of an older document…. It is an instruction manual for students in arithmetic and geometry. In addition to giving area formulas and methods for multiplication, division and working with unit fractions, it also contains evidence of other mathematical knowledge.”
✦ “Greek mathematics was much more sophisticated than the mathematics that had been developed by earlier cultures…. Greek mathematicians, by contrast, used deductive reasoning. The Greeks used logic to derive conclusions from definitions and axioms, and used mathematical rigor to prove them.”
✦ “In the 9th century, the Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote an important book on the Hindu–Arabic numerals and one on methods for solving equations … instrumental in spreading Indian mathematics and Indian numerals to the West. The word algorithm is derived from the Latinization of his name, Algoritmi, and the word algebra from the title of one of his works.”
Rather than representing “white supremacy,” the evolution of mathematics has been a globe-, race-, and culture-spanning collaboration of advancements, an ongoing development of more effective tools for anyone to use. And that history shows that all of those involved wanted to get the answers right, where having to show your work has been a millennia-old strategy for mathematics education.
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