College math a ‘white, cisheteropatriarchal space,’ Vanderbilt professor says at major conference

I think I'd need more details to see if it's insane or just another lamentation of a "good ole boys" club. It's not that math isn't objective, but grading students (especially with partial credit for showing their work on very complicated problems), writing letters of recommendation, getting students help, etc. are all things that could be subject to biases. Be interested to see what his evidence is.

 

That's a shame. "Classical" Calculus can be rough especially if you don't have the preparatory classes for it. Analytical Trig is essential, and just as tough or tougher than Calc. But, I've always felt that there should be a Calc lite for any and everyone, calculus really changes how you look at the world and everything in it and, beyond it. Anyway if Forestry was your dream it's too bad it fell victim to Calc., because, you're right, it wouldn't have affected that career one way or the other ... much.

 

I didn't really know what I wanted to do with Forestry anyway. My parents wanted me to go to college, and I liked the outdoors, so ...Forestry. Thats literally all there was to it. I wasn't heartbroken about switching majors over it.

It did seem kinda silly that my success in Forestry was to be graded on a math curve against electrical engineers and nuclear physicists...

 

plenty of women worked within math fields from women "computers" who found new stars, however it must be remember alan turings problems in england

 

More proof that education and intelligence aren't synonymous.

 

I agree. I've always thought that if someone had taught me how to do the simple calculus in high school to solve real world problems, I might have been more interested. When I finally took it in college in my late 20s, it was like a light came on. 4 pages of algebra to solve a problem that you can do with calculus in zip zap seconds was simply amazing to me.

 

Yeah, I wish I would have taken it in High School as well. But it was never a high school goal but, IF you're going to take high school calc you have to start that plan in Jr. high ... well ... middle school now.

 

What??? Lol... Asians are not replacing white folks any time and if they do, white folks would be better off getting replaced by Asians instead of by black or Hispanics unless you want to see run down Third World country.

 

An obvious attempt of putting wokeness ahead of objective and absolute equations. There is no racism in math

 

Oh my! How not racist at all!

 

There was exacly one woman who was exceptionally good at math: Emmy Noether. She was, however, a super star.

 

Which doesn't mean it is untrue.

 

That’s irrational … thinker.

 

It's lunacy.



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It does make sense essentially this is a lot of words just saying there's too many honkeys in here. The question is does honkeys include Asians or not.

It's just a racist piece of **** professor being a racist piece of ****. And chicken **** administrators far too chicken **** to fire their sorry ass.

Essentially this is the soft bigotry of low expectations.

 

I had to take 3 semesters of calc for my CS degree. In over 2 decades in the industry I've only ever needed to calculate simple derivatives for a single project. It really is not necessary for most jobs.

 

White people in oddly enough Asians yes. You probably not going to see too many trans people there because there's it's not too many of them anywhere. You're not going to see as many women there because they don't care about that stuff at the rate men do. You're not going to see too many black people there because black people make up about 15% of the population of the US. And I am not sure what Hispanic has to do with anything that's not a race it's a culture and I'm not sure there's anything that culture that says you can't pursue engineering or mathematic fields.

 

A professor said this garbage.


Let that one sink in.

 

So far I've learned from CRT...

Math is racist
Hard work is racist
Standards are racist
Seeing everyone as equal...you damn bet that's racist
Science is racist
All white people are inherently racist
Debating against any of these claims is racist.

The absolute coddling continues...

 

Apparently they're not POC


Univ. of Maryland slammed for separating Asian students from 'students of color' in graphic

The University of Maryland is facing backlash after an administrative graphic separated students into two categories — “students of color, minus Asians” and “white or Asian students.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-...sian-students-students-color-graphic-rcna6151

 

I'm fixing to finish reading the article but I'm only 3 words in and I know all i need to know...."An education professor..."

As a math professor, saying math has anything to do with race is near the top of the list of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

 

Is that you, rachel madcow? ok, ok, smart ass, sneering, arrogant asshat describes a large % of the liberal population.

 

Please provide evidence that when you say white males it is Asians in this university context.

 

"Advance of queer justice"? WTF does 2 + 2 = 4 have to do withe queer justice? Are non-cis mathematicians supposes to not know the answer is 4?