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Leftists Push ‘Mathematics For Social Justice’ On Campuses

Central Washington University, Bates College, and Swarthmore will each offer a math course this school year that draws from "social justice" ideology.

ThinkCivics Newswire by ThinkCivics Newswire
October 20, 2021
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Leftists Push ‘Mathematics For Social Justice’ On Campuses

This school year, colleges around the country will teach students to use math to drive a “social justice” agenda. Campus Reform has found several courses, aimed both at math students and future teachers, that will teach math through social justice and social justice through math.

Central Washington University’s “Mathematics for Social Justice,” identified by Twitter user @OrwellNGoode, purports to teach students how, and why, to use math for social justice activism. The course description says, “The overarching goal of this course is for students to develop the ability and inclination to use mathematics to understand, and improve, the world around us, exploring social, political, and economic justice.” Students will use math and analysis to “draw conclusions concerning social justice issues,” “make and evaluate assumptions in a social justice context,” and “analyze and critique social justice claims and arguments.”

Bates College will also offer “Mathematics for Social Justice” in the spring of 2022. The course’s stated goals are similar to those of the course at Central Washington University. According to the course catalog, students who enroll can expect to “use mathematics as a powerful analytic framework for understanding and developing realistic solutions to issues of social, political, and economic justice.”

Swarthmore College will offer a similar course in the spring, titled “Mathematics and Social Justice.” Its course description is more politically charged than most: The class purports to “[examine] the roles that mathematics and mathematicians play in society, particularly through the lenses of equity and social justice.” Swarthmore also gets specific about the topics to which students will apply math, which include “policing, politics, healthcare, and the military-industrial complex.”

Other colleges are home to social justice courses geared toward current and future math teachers. The University of West Georgia offers “STEM Math for Social Justice” this semester, which trains teachers to teach social justice math to their preschool through high school students. The course is offered through the College of Education. According to the course description, students will examine “STEM education…through the lens of social justice, equity, and community-based learning.”

The course is one of four that count toward a STEM Endorsement, a credential that, when earned, is added to the recipient’s teaching certificate to signify that the teacher is capable of “using the principles of STEM education in their teaching practice.” The University of West Georgia requires students to take the course in order to earn the STEM Endorsement; another required course is “STEM Investigations through Ecojustice.”

Like the University of West Georgia, Fresno Pacific University is also training teachers to use”‘social justice” math in their classrooms. Those who enroll in the self-paced online course will be taught “specific strategies for engaging students in mathematics lessons and activities built around social justice issues, such as healthy eating, living wages around the world, access to clean water or fair trade.” Participants will also learn why math lessons should include social justice. The course descriptions states that students will “explore the rationale for integrating critical issues into mathematics curriculum.” They will also “plan and implement effective social justice lesson plans,” per the course syllabus.

These colleges are not the first to train teachers to push social justice into their math lessons. Such training programs date back to at least the summer of 2019, when the University of Nebraska offered “Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice” as part of its Math & Science Summer Institutes. Now, courses like it are proliferating across the country.

SOURCE-CAMPUS REFORM

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