It's racist of you to think that it will happen at a set time, reality is now multiple choice.
That's right folks, feast your eyes on this educational campaign from Oregon!
Resources and guidance to support Black, LatinX, and Multilingual students to thrive in grades 6-8 A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction is an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity, and aligns...
equitablemath.org
I know we've seen it before but I'm still staggered at this thing. Let me just look at the first "stride" and we'll explore how they expect math to work.
White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when...
The focus is on getting the “right” answer.
The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.
Instead...
Verbal Example: Come up with at least two answers
that might solve this problem.
Classroom Activity: Challenge standardized test
questions by getting the “right” answer, but justify
other answers by unpacking the assumptions that
are made in the problem.
White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when... Addressing mistakes.
Instead...
Though math teachers often tout the phrase “mistakes are expected, respected, inspected, and corrected,” their practices don’t always align. Teachers often treat mistakes as problems by equating them with wrongness, rather than treating them opportunities for learning—which reinforces the ideas of perfectionism (that students shouldn’t make mistakes) and paternalism (teachers or other experts can and should correct mistakes). Identify what is right about the thinking, and highlight the mistake in what is factually or procedurally accepted. • Verbal Example: You recognized that you had to combine the constants 27 and 9, could you explain your thinking?
Note this is the first part of a very lengthy series on how to remove racism and white supremacy from math. I honestly can't comprehend how anybody thought math problems* can have multiple correct answers and it's white supremacy for teachers to correct mistakes.
*I'll grant there may be some advanced disciplines where this is true, but those aren't being taught to 6th graders,