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I have never seen a math text book that addressed CRT. DeathSantis is nuts
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They are now banning dozens of MATH textbooks in Florida (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 2022
OP
All the banned math books had equals signs in them. Nothing scares a fascist like equality.
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 2022
#10
Aw, it'll be OK. Never could figure out those number thingys, no how. n/t
allegorical oracle
Apr 2022
#11
UF dropout who has NO education experience -- rejects 41% of math textbooks
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 2022
#12
This is absurd and offensive on its face. The Trumpification of America continues
LetMyPeopleVote
Apr 2022
#13
Ilsa
(62,245 posts)1. Good grief. nt
barbaraann
(9,287 posts)2. I just wish they had banned Physics textbooks when I was in high school.
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,046 posts)3. What do they mean by BLACK HOLES anyway?
Banned!
barbaraann
(9,287 posts)5. Ha! Good one! :)
Diamond_Dog
(34,826 posts)4. My husband taught math in public schools for 31 years
He said this is the most ridiculous thing he has ever heard of.
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,617 posts)6. Arggh
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,617 posts)7. What the #GQP thinks CRT is
Lucky Luciano
(11,436 posts)8. Does this mean that the pictures in the book showed black children
solving a multiplication problem?
mahatmakanejeeves
(61,045 posts)9. Florida rejects math books with 'references' to critical race theory
Hat tip, Joe.My.God., who had the story the other day
Florida Bans 54 Math Textbooks For Indoctrination
April 16, 2022
April 16, 2022
ANSWER SHEET Analysis
Florida rejects math books with references to critical race theory
By Valerie Strauss and Lindsey Bever
Yesterday at 1:05 p.m. EDT | Updated yesterday at 6:56 p.m. EDT
In its latest attempt to be the nations leader in restricting what happens in public school classrooms, Florida said it has rejected a pile of math textbooks submitted by publishers in part because they contained prohibited subjects, including critical race theory.
The Florida Department of Education announced on Friday that Richard Corcoran, the outgoing commissioner of education, approved an initial adoption list of instructional materials for math, but 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were rejected most of them in elementary school.
Some were said not to be aligned with Floridas content standards, called the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking, or BEST. But others, the department said, were rejected for the subject matter. Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics, it said in an announcement on the departments website.
{snip}
By Valerie Strauss
Valerie Strauss is an education writer who authors The Answer Sheet blog. She came to The Washington Post as an assistant foreign editor for Asia in 1987 and weekend foreign desk editor after working for Reuters as national security editor and a military/foreign affairs reporter on Capitol Hill. She also previously worked at UPI and the LA Times. Twitter https://twitter.com/valeriestrauss
By Lindsey Bever
Lindsey Bever is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post, covering national news with an emphasis on health. She was previously a reporter at the Dallas Morning News. Twitter https://twitter.com/lindseybever
Florida rejects math books with references to critical race theory
By Valerie Strauss and Lindsey Bever
Yesterday at 1:05 p.m. EDT | Updated yesterday at 6:56 p.m. EDT
In its latest attempt to be the nations leader in restricting what happens in public school classrooms, Florida said it has rejected a pile of math textbooks submitted by publishers in part because they contained prohibited subjects, including critical race theory.
The Florida Department of Education announced on Friday that Richard Corcoran, the outgoing commissioner of education, approved an initial adoption list of instructional materials for math, but 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were rejected most of them in elementary school.
Some were said not to be aligned with Floridas content standards, called the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking, or BEST. But others, the department said, were rejected for the subject matter. Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics, it said in an announcement on the departments website.
{snip}
By Valerie Strauss
Valerie Strauss is an education writer who authors The Answer Sheet blog. She came to The Washington Post as an assistant foreign editor for Asia in 1987 and weekend foreign desk editor after working for Reuters as national security editor and a military/foreign affairs reporter on Capitol Hill. She also previously worked at UPI and the LA Times. Twitter https://twitter.com/valeriestrauss
By Lindsey Bever
Lindsey Bever is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post, covering national news with an emphasis on health. She was previously a reporter at the Dallas Morning News. Twitter https://twitter.com/lindseybever
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,617 posts)10. All the banned math books had equals signs in them. Nothing scares a fascist like equality.
allegorical oracle
(3,122 posts)11. Aw, it'll be OK. Never could figure out those number thingys, no how. n/t
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,617 posts)12. UF dropout who has NO education experience -- rejects 41% of math textbooks
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,617 posts)13. This is absurd and offensive on its face. The Trumpification of America continues
onethatcares
(16,572 posts)14. imagine
being a POC in the military and having him as your JAG officer at a board or courts martial...