Um math, real math, is about showing your work. Showing your work is the whole point. Getting the right answer is just the beginning. You then have to be able to prove to everyone else that your answer is right.

It's not enough for Terry Tao to just announce he solved a problem. He has to write a whole paper before the other mathematicians believe him.

If you want to make math more accessible, you can certainly talk about different cultural things, like use Mancala as an example and find mathematical strategies, or put pictures of mathematicians from different cultures on the walls, or talk about numerals in different cultures and you can really get into different cultures when you learn bases other than ten.

And having open ended problems is certainly good. But learning basic facts is part of math, you need them as a toolkit, and in base 10, 65+21 has one answer.

Show your work, much as I hated it when I was a kid, is necessary. PARTICULARLY if you have an open-ended problem with more than one possible answer.

Trying to apply "woke logic" to something like math or science is just a sign how totally absurd and destructive the Left has become. Why they aren't driven from the public stage under a deluge of rotten vegetables and howls of derision is beyond me.

If they persist, it won't be rotten vegetables they'll need to be dodging.

The whole " math and science are white supremacist" is that they give answers that prove the woke are wrong.
And since that can't be allowed, math and science must be white supremacist. This will be the battle cry anytime someone tries to prove to anyone through math or science that woke is wrong. It will just "prove" you are a white supremacist.

Woke claims police are hunting blacks, only blacks, and it's an epidemic. The actual numbers show this is a lie. About 1100 people a year of all colors are killed by cops each year. Only 25% of those killed are black when about 50% of all violent criminals are black. And before it is said blacks don't make up half of the poor in America.

Here's a math question. Which is more likely, being struck by lightning or being shot and killed by a cop while being unarmed and black?
Of those killed only 13 were unarmed black shootings (in 2019), out of over 40 mill blacks. Being struck by lightning has the odd of 1 in a half million per year, being unarmed, black, and killed by cops is even rarer.
But saying that would make one a white supremacist.

Remember for some people 2+2=5. Also remember these people are stupid and/or liars.

https://thepostmillennial.com/two-plus-two-does-not-equal-five-no-matter-what-twitter-says

Math is the most liberating possible subject. You can get the right answer even if you are black or green or unpopular or ugly or barely speak english. Nerdy boys gravitate to math for this reason, not because they are genetically determined that way. The woke dogma is that all unequal outcomes can only be due to racism, therefore the poor performance of big city blacks must be racism. It is never explained why racism against asians seems to give them HIGHER math scores. Historically there was in fact racism against asians: china towns were not the choice of asians but were due to racist laws. The first civil rights victory was actually against laws telling asians they had to live in chinatown in San Fran. It is waved away that home disruption and bad (democrat) schools and crime all could make kids do worse, along with the attitude (among boys esp) that doing homework is acting white.

What answer does such an idiot have for the very existence of Katherine Johnson or Mary Jackson?

When a high standard is established SOMEONE will show up and meet or exceed it. The existence of ANY demographic is not a reason to lower that standard.

Well, I dunno why anyone would think this is wrong.

Got 177,000 voters on the rolls that need to be purged? Wait until after the Presidential election, and vigorously defend the vote count as accurate DURING that election.

Because, Feelz. It's not important to show your work in the election process. Why should it be anywhere else?

Who are Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson?

Who are Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson? ~ Crid at February 28, 2021 2:54 PM

Black women who worked at NASA during the Mercury and Apollo missions. Mary Jackson was an engineer. Katherine Johnson was a mathematician employed in calculating launch windows and orbital paths for space ships.

Both were depicted, along with Dorothy Vaughn, as the protagonists in the movie, Hidden Figures.

Well... Hmm.

One of the artifacts of a numbering system is that it establishes an inherent structure. This structure confuses some people into thinking that gematria produces meaningful results (no)...
Another product of this structure is the many associated salients associated with "666", at best a fanciful piece of poetic justice as recited by self-identified fundamentalists.

One awesome bit of reasoning invoked Riemann's Hypothesis and its suggestions about prime numbers. "They don't think it be, but it do."

Did I say that with the appropriate amount of condescension and "privilege"?

2+2=4: A perspective in white, Western mathematics that marginalizes other possible values ~ from a link by Ben at February 28, 2021 7:00 AM

What "other possible values?"

In what African, Asian, or Mesoamerican mathematics were there "other" results when 2 was combined with 2?

This is nothing more than the revenge of people who struggled with math in elementary and high school.

This one is worth a read.

There is no such thing as “white” mathematics. There is no reason to assume, as the activists do, that minority kids are not capable of mathematics or of finding the “right answers.” And there can be no justification for, in the name of “equity” or anything else, depriving students of the rigorous education that they need to succeed. The real antiracists will stand up and oppose this nonsense.