#woke math

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously coloured what they wrote, or they struggled after the truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that ‘the facts’ existed and were more or less discoverable. And in practice there was always a considerable body of fact which would have been agreed to by almost everyone. If you look up the history of the last war in, for instance, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, you will find that a respectable amount of the material is drawn from German sources. A British and a German historian would disagree deeply on many things, even on fundamentals, but there would still be that body of, as it were, neutral fact on which neither would seriously challenge the other. It is just this common basis of agreement, with its implication that human beings are all one species of animal, that totalitarianism destroys. Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as ‘the truth’ exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as ‘science’. There is only ‘German science’, ‘Jewish science’ etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’ – well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five – well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs – and after our experiences of the last few years that is not a frivolous statement.

But is it perhaps childish or morbid to terrify oneself with visions of a totalitarian future? Before writing off the totalitarian world as a nightmare that can’t come true, just remember that in 1925 the world of today would have seemed a nightmare that couldn’t come true. Against that shifting phantasmagoric world in which black may be white tomorrow and yesterday’s weather can be changed by decree, there are in reality only two safeguards. One is that however much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing, as it were, behind your back, and you consequently can’t violate it in ways that impair military efficiency. The other is that so long as some parts of the earth remain unconquered, the liberal tradition can be kept alive.

-- George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War" (1943)

Eerie.

[ Note: In 1949, Orwell subsequently wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. ]

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"One of the key contributions of critical theorists concerns the production of knowledge. Given that the transmission of knowledge is an integral activity in schools, critical scholars in the field of education have been especially concerned with how knowledge is produced. These scholars argue that a key element of social injustice involves the claim that particular knowledge is objective, neutral, and universal. An approach based on critical theory calls into question the idea that objectivity is desirable or even possible. The term used to describe this way of thinking about knowledge is that knowledge is socially constructed. When we refer to knowledge as socially constructed we mean that knowledge is reflective of the values and interests of those who produce it."

-- Ozlem Sensoy/Robin DiAngelo, "Is Everyone Really Equal?"

#George Orwell #Looking Back on the Spanish War #1619 Project #historical revisionism #revisionist history #2+2=5 #woke math #postmodernism #decolonize science #cultural relativism #decolonize STEM #woke #wokeism #cult of woke #wokeness as religion #wokeness #religion is a mental illness

[rubydubydoo122]

Ghost Jason: Shit, Bruce is gonna kill himself. I gotta send him something to care about [spots stalker Tim] Bingo!

Tim: I gotta ask Dick to be Robin again

Ghost! Jason:… I was thinking you walk up to Bruce with puppy eyes, but close enough.

Dick: No.

Tim: I guess… if that didn’t work… I’ll have to be Robin

Ghost! Jason: that’s not what I meant, but there’s no way Bruce is gonna let you—

Bruce:… hrg [yes]

Ghost! Jason: NO BRUCE, YOU WERE SUPPOSED ADOPT HIM NOT MAKE HIM ROBIN!!! god, sometimes you gotta do things yourself [wakes up in coffin with only vengeance on his mind]

#jason todd #batman #batfam #dick grayson #red hood #tim drake #bruce wayne #dc comics #robin tim drake #cus if you do the math #Jason woke up in his grave around the same time as Tim knocked on Dicks door… so yeah

[haveyouheardthisband]

Theoretically, at the rate you're going and with only the current submissions, how long would it take to reach the end?

we're currently on submission 2,353 out of 19,476 so... like... 2 years? --r

#Thats not accounting for duplicates tho. I imagine the further we go the more duplicate submissions there'll be #asks #Sorry if my math is wrong i just woke up lol

[officersnickers]

I was today years old when I learned the Sagrada Familia is a building in the making and now I hope it’s finished by 2050, so Ray can marvel at the completed work of art that the basilica is.

(also - Sagrada Familia? Sacred Family? it all makes sense for this very specific character)

#Snickers babbles #the promised neverland #tpn #ynn #yakusoku no neverland #Ray becoming a libarian because he used to read a lot? broke #Ray becoming an architect because this field combines math and art. two things he actually enjoys? woke #also him wanting to see Mona Lisa because of her smile? that reminds him of his late mother? please please please #(Mona some sort of title. Lisa being a form of Elisabeth. just like Isabella. Isabella being a spanish name. the Sagrada Familia standing in #Spain. I'm just connecting the dots here) #everyone else: you didn't connect shit Sherlock

[otrtbs]

sick.as a dog actually gonna take some crazy strong cough syrup and write something for kinktober

#i am pretty sure my grandparents gave me covid. they both have it #n i just woke up at 3 am after going to bed at 9 w a raging fever and a cough #so unfortunately that’s math that even i can do #what the fUCK

[nativehueofresolution]

something something armand waiting a century in paris with lestat oceans away, hoping he'll return so they can be together vs armand staying with louis for around a century waiting for him to return to himself so they can be together. lestat rejecting him and leaving vs louis reciprocating and wanting to run away with him, only to be so broken by the time they are together he's left emotionally. lestat stating openly the qualities about armand that disgust him and burying the fact that he does still love him vs louis staying with armand as his companion, wishing for most of that time armand would leave him alone and not doing much to hide that, and yet being crushed when armand finally does leave.

#also i'm using century loosely; i just woke up from a nap and am not bothering to do the mental math to get the exact timelines #i'm using the word vs to invite comparison bc i think it's interesting #please do not actually try to make this a competition lmao #lesmand #loumand #iwtv #kaitlin speaks

[endlessnightskyshoutsback]

i had a dream ranboo appeared in ppls houses whenever they were being transphobic n slapped them with a cat plushie..

life is good

#i just woke up from this wonderful dream #im immediately in a good mood #we don't talk abt the part where he studies math calmly while they have a breakdown next to him #ranboolive #ranboo live #ranboo #dreamposting

[mushyfart]

me looking at my friend after they said the craziest bs out of nowhere

#at dead of night #jimmy hall #adon #why does he look like that #bro stands like my 2nd math teacher listening to me explain how 2+2=fish #woke up late as hell today😨

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Faith Bottum

Published: Aug 19, 2023

The California State Board of Education issued on July 12 a new framework for teaching math based on what it calls “updated principles of focus, coherence, and rigor.” The word “updated” is certainly accurate. Not so much “principles,” “focus,” “coherence” or “rigor.” California’s new approach to math is as unfair as it is unserious.

The framework is voluntary, but it will heavily influence school districts and teachers around the Golden State. Developed over the past four years, it runs nearly 1,000 pages. Among the titles of its 14 chapters are “Teaching for Equity and Engagement,” “Structuring School Experiences for Equity and Engagement” and “Supporting Educators in Offering Equitable and Engaging Mathematics Instruction.” The guidelines demand that math teachers be “committed to social justice work” to “equip students with a toolkit and mindset to identify and combat inequities with mathematics”—not with the ability to do math. Far more important is teaching students that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society.”

California’s education bureaucrats are seeking to reinvent math as a grievance study. “Big ideas are central to the learning of mathematics,” the framework insists, but the only big idea the document promotes is that unequal outcomes in math performance are proof of a racist society.

To achieve equal outcomes, the framework favors the elimination of “tracking,” by which it means the practice of identifying students with the potential to do well. This supposedly damages the mental health of low-achieving students. The problem is that some students simply are better at math than others. To close the gap, the authors of the new framework have decided essentially to eliminate calculus—and to hold talented students back.

The framework recommends that Algebra I not be taught in middle school, which would force the course to be taught in high school. But if the students all take algebra as freshmen, there won’t be time to fit calculus into a four-year high-school program. And that’s the point: The gap between the best and worst math students will become less visible.

As written, the framework appears to violate the California Mathematics Placement Act of 2015, which requires proper courses for advanced students. A petition signed by roughly 6,000 parents and other concerned citizens may have spurred the drafters of the framework to add an amendment that reads, “Students may take Algebra 1 or Mathematics 1 in middle school.” But the completed document still pushes students not to take algebra in middle school. Instead, the framework recommends investigating whether the traditional five-year progression—Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Precalculus (including trigonometry) and Calculus—could be shortened so students would still be able to take calculus during senior year. As it stands now, students must either double up or enroll in a summer course to be able to take calculus—or go to a private school, which students from underprivileged backgrounds can’t afford to do.

A growing opposition from college professors should embarrass the Board of Education. More than 400 professors were incensed by a proposed data-science course as a math track that students might follow instead of Algebra II. “For students to be prepared for STEM and other quantitative majors in 4-year colleges . . . learning Algebra II in high school is essential,” they wrote in an open letter. “This cannot be replaced with a high-school statistics or data-science course, due to the cumulative nature of mathematics.”

Brian Conrad, a mathematics professor at Stanford, has created a website to debunk the framework. He writes that the California framework “selectively cites research to make points it wants to make,” and that it “contains false or misleading descriptions of many citations from the literature in neuroscience, acceleration, de-tracking, assessments, and more.” He gets so worked up that he calls a version of chapters 6 and 7 (which respectively cover kindergarten through fifth grade and sixth through eighth grades) an “embarrassment to professionalism.”

The jargon- and acronym-laden California framework, Mr. Conrad says, “promotes a cartoon view” of how students acquire “reliable mathematical skills.” It is equivalent, he says, to supporting that children need not “learn how to spell because there are spell-checkers and spelling is not part of analytical thinking.” The five-member writing team, supervised by a 20-member oversight team, didn’t collaborate with any recognized STEM experts in industry about what training graduates will need in the workplace, Mr. Conrad says.

“Those who claim to be champions of equity should put more effort and resources into helping all students to achieve real success in learning mathematics,” Mr. Conrad says, “rather than using illegal artificial barriers, misrepresented data and citations, or fake validations to create false optics of success.” California should stop trying to turn math into a social-science course.

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Considering California already underperforms compared to the nation - with an average that never approaches Proficient and barely skims over the top of Basic - the last thing it needs is more students who know more about identity politics and less about actual math.

[ Source: Nation's Report Card - Note: twelfth-grade results not available. ]

#Faith Bottum #Ian Rowe #math #mathematics #woke math #corruption of education #equity #social justice #diversity equity and inclusion #diversity #inclusion #religion is a mental illness

[frecklystars]

Self care is hearing that there’s a 2004 Ryan Gosling movie you haven’t seen that’s playing in the theaters only today and only at 2pm, and you decide you deserve to have a good time and you should see it, because you’re kind of latching onto Ryan’s characters for dear life rn, but you have to work at 4:30pm — HOWEVER you can make it to the movie if you put on your uniform and book it to work right after the movie ends!!!! So you get dressed looking like a snack in your black pants, treat yourself to a slushie and go to the movies

#I did all the math for the previews and the drive on the way there #GOOD FOR ME #I’ve never seen The Notebook before I heard it’s… long #but I’m in my Barbie/Ryan Gosling era so here we go #after Thursday they aren’t showing Barbie in theaters anymore so I’m gonna try to see that once a day everyday for the next 4 days #but that’s good that means it’s gonna stream soon and finally there will be an HD online version for me to gif!!!!! #woof #normally when I work I just sleep until I have to go #but I’ve slept. for. my god 18 hours? and. i just woke up #and I just realized this is the first time in a month that im not seeing the Barbie movie #you know how many tickets I have for Barbie in my box of collected movie tickets? FUCKING 26 #I contributed to that billion Miss Greta Gerwig

[snixx]

ok im sorry but i saw ur aro abed post and now i need to come into ur inbox and be absolutely insane about it because oh my god i actually cannot handle this

like coming out of the hunger games fandom and then the byler fandom where the main largely accepted opinion in fandom (including my opinion) was that katniss and and peeta and mike and will were allo and in love w/ eachother and now being in the community fandom like im actually going insane

bcs yeah a lot of ppl think trobed are romantically in love and i think romantic trobed is cute too but OMG like a widely accepted hc among fandom is that aro trobed in a qpr, like SO MANY PPL THINK THIS its actually insane and it makes me so happy and even tho my best friend is more annie coded than troy coded platonic trobed is literally so us abd im losing my mind ok i dont even know what im saying anymore im absolutely losing it

so yeah um oops in short: ARO ABED AND QPR TROBED FUCKING REAL

yes. yes. yesyesyesyesyesyesyes. i love my romantic trobed buT I LOVE QPR TROBED SO MUCH. ARO ABED MY BELOVED

#sorry im answering this so late btw i got sick and slept for 24 hours straight (woke up at 4:30pm to give a math test but went back to sleep #right after) #summer child 🍃 #community #happy valentines day btw loml #aromantic #aro stuff #also speaking of will. if that man were aro he would literally be me ok #aro interpretation of will and byler is literally me and my ex best friend. #like best believe if i could spend my whole life playling cringefail LARP games with my best friend i would #i would make her paintings and write her songs every day. but she doesnt care about anyone but her bf soooooooo wtv 😮‍💨 #rinkomania fight was something we've literally had WORD. FOR. WORD. #but its too early to go there today LOL anyway

[dustandshadows-if]

ROs heights?

Farrah is 5'9"

Quinn is 5'10"

Juliette is 5'2"

Ianira is 6'0"

Pepper is 5'5"

#thanks anon! #sorry guys idk how to convert it😶 #i just woke up i dont feel like doing math rn lmao #me and juliette are the same height. arent we so slay:3 #quinn. #mc. #farrah. #juliette. #pepper. #nira.

[eldritchmochi]

Hey! I'm a cane user and my partner did something super cute today and I was thinking about it with essek and caleb,

but as I gave her a kiss before I left, her legs started to wobble and she lightly used my cane to help her stay standing, super gently so she didn't unbalance me, which just sorta fried my brain with how cute it was but it gave me the mental image of caleb doing that with esseks after essek takes his breath away a little.

And as your fic is my holy grail of disability scenes that take my heart I had to tell you.

that IS super cute omfg *v*

what if.... wizards touched hands?? over the grip of one wizards cane????

#mochi rambles #mochi asks #mochi presents coping skills #just woke up so im math lady dot png tryna figure out if itd work with the wizards height difference #like it isnt a huge difference and essek is all leg #but its still like four inches

[snailgirlpancreas]

WOKE MATH LESSON

"teacher": okay "class", today we will learn about "nonbinary octahedron" and "pronoun calculus"

#ub original #text #funny #meme #WOKE MATH LESSON

[leahthedreamer]

I hate that they do the free skates by random draw and not reverse order anymore. Why was that change even made.

#I feel like it adds a lot of unnecessary math and also is plain ole confusing if I just woke up and decided to randomly tune in #hashtag bring back reverse order #figure skating #4cc 2024

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Maybe it's my inner Tanta Cinta talking but Cipal has way too many fecking stairs. Where's the ramps? How are merchants supposed to wheel carts and wagons of goods throughout the city? Are they expected to just carry everything on their backs? Or construction materials! How did they haul around all that stone to build the place? And what about their elderly or disabled citizens? It's an accessibility nightmare.

Honestly. I'm going to go with my usual theory when it comes to game worlds: what we see is only a symbolic representation of what the actual world would be like if it was real. I mean otherwise there's no way Cipal can fit thousands of people, let alone the thousands of refugees on top of its usual population that it took in when the Corruption hit. And also if we stick with only exactly what's in the game, Athia is an island, not a continent. It's only about six or seven miles from end to end. My commute to work is roughly half that, which would mean that round trip I bus the length of Athia every day.

This is one of the reasons I wish we had a day/night cycle. If I knew how long 24 hours in-game took in real time, I could use average walking speed to get a rough estimation of how big Athia is supposed to be in-universe based on how long it takes to walk to any given location. I did this with Eos in FFXV using the time it takes to drive from the Insomnia Blockade to the Rock of Ravatogh at 60mph, I can do it again for walking speed!

...wait a minute

I know what day Frey came to Athia. And I can find out what day she fought the dragon. I can calculate from there based on average walking speed and an assumption that she didn't walk for 24 hours straight how far it is between Junoon Castle and Junoon Castle Town. The existence of Flow might throw off my math a little, though. Hmm...

Where there's a will there's a way. I'ma find out.

#bobbi's being weird again #forspoken #Forspoken worldbuilding #for someone who hates math as much as I do I sure do it for fun a lot lol #good gravy I woke up like this today is gonna be Weird™ #it's 240 miles between the Insomnia Blockade parking spot and the Rock of Ravatogh parking spot btw #the scaling of the world would have you think it's like...four I think #maybe also six like Athia #I think that's pretty standard for open world map sizes