California approves new math guidelines that emphasize ‘Social Justice’

For nearly two years, California has been fiddling with new guidelines for teaching math that “de-emphasizes calculus, and applies social justice principles to math lessons.” Now those guidelines have been finalized, and the state board of education is thrilled to announce that math is no longer “racist.”

PJ Media’s Matt Margolis covered the initial efforts at developing these new guidelines in 2021. At the time, more than 1,000 STEM experts signed an open letter condemning the new criteria, writing that “the proposed framework “de-mathematizes math,” and that “a real champion of equity and justice would want all California’s children to learn actual math—as in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus—not an endless river of new pedagogical fads that effectively distort and displace actual math.”

The new guidelines are based on a concept known as “equitable math” that seeks “to dismantle objectivity in the concept.” That means there are no “right” or “wrong answers” — a curious basis for any level of mathematics.

“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so,” a document for the “Equitable Math” toolkit read. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuates objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.”

Those poor kids. They’ve become “warriors for social justice” without being asked. And the price they pay will prove to be far more damaging to their futures than anything any white person will ever do to them.

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