A math education professor in New York City claimed that the equation 2+2=4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.” “The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a ...
America at 250: The New Issue of NR Is Out Audio By Carbonatix The Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA) has released an official statement responding to a National Review report which ...
In “California Leftists Try to Cancel Math Class” (op-ed, May 19), Williamson M. Evers correctly quotes some of the antiracist dogmas being promoted that will frustrate math learning. However, many of ...
A simple 2+2 problem became a paradox when real-world context intervened, sparking Kareem Carr’s debate on definitions and axioms. Carr and others show how context bent arithmetic, such as angles ...
Summing two and two to make four has become a point of dispute in, of all places, the Toronto District School Board’s Mathematics and Numeracy department. According to a diagram used by its staff in ...