Supported by the Gates Foundation, so likely to be widely disseminated in schools. The site says, "We also wish to thank the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for their generous financial support of this project."
> Supported by the Gates Foundation, so likely to be widely disseminated in schools.
Is it? The financial support seems to be $3 million in 2017 [1]. That year the Gates foundation spent roughly $380 million on "U.S. education" [2]. It seems hard to imagine that they plan on widely implementing the results of every single grant?
So in search of getting the correct answer to a mathematical problem and showing a written representation of your thought process leading to the answer is somehow 'racist'? and somehow, it is how 'white supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms'. This is getting ridiculous now.
Perhaps the authors need to realise that they are tackling the wrong problem and need to look and blame themselves for the issues in their own communities that are 'closer to home' rather than these frivolous 'excuses' and brainwashing attempts.
By their own excuses, theorem provers and optimisation problems are racist since you must show the steps to prove a theorem. Basic arithmetic instructions, algorithms, calculators, computers and equations don't care about your feelings nor do they care about your race.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 17.5 ms ] threadIs it? The financial support seems to be $3 million in 2017 [1]. That year the Gates foundation spent roughly $380 million on "U.S. education" [2]. It seems hard to imagine that they plan on widely implementing the results of every single grant?
[1] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Gran...
[2] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and-Med...
Perhaps the authors need to realise that they are tackling the wrong problem and need to look and blame themselves for the issues in their own communities that are 'closer to home' rather than these frivolous 'excuses' and brainwashing attempts.
By their own excuses, theorem provers and optimisation problems are racist since you must show the steps to prove a theorem. Basic arithmetic instructions, algorithms, calculators, computers and equations don't care about your feelings nor do they care about your race.