“Proponents of social justice math, they don’t like how much consumerism is in math. Because a typical math problem would be, ‘If you have 13 cents, and a green pencil is three cents…’ You know, that sort of problem,” he began, speaking with guest host Dana Loesch on The Glenn Beck Program.
“They want to get rid of those … problems and instead what they want to do, they want to calculate war deaths,” he continued. “Or they want to calculate the number of liquor stores within a particular radius of the school, or problems related to global warming. They want to put an emphasis on those things and drill the political issues to make a political point, versus just simply educating and teaching kids math.”
Read the full article at the link but this is a key point...
Olson said it is “incumbent upon parents” to share the examples of social justice math, revisionist history, or any other troubling material being taught in their children’s classrooms.
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“They want to get rid of those … problems and instead what they want to do, they want to calculate war deaths,” he continued. “Or they want to calculate the number of liquor stores within a particular radius of the school, or problems related to global warming. They want to put an emphasis on those things and drill the political issues to make a political point, versus just simply educating and teaching kids math.”
Read the full article at the link but this is a key point...
Olson said it is “incumbent upon parents” to share the examples of social justice math, revisionist history, or any other troubling material being taught in their children’s classrooms.
http://bit.ly/1nJF7T9
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