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In Reply to: Here's the actual math curriculum in Seattle posted by autumn on January 3, 2021 at 16:45:39:
https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudies/pubdocs/Math%20SDS%20ES%20Framework.pdf
The above includes RT's quote.
And the quote "The idea of 2 + 2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing." comes from a Tweet that went viral last year. It was since deleted, but here's a summary of some responses to it:
https://mathedcollective.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/attack-on-brittany-marshall/
The other quote comes from here:
https://twitter.com/laurie_rubel/status/1290317557686308865?lang=en
A summary of responses to it:
https://mathedcollective.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/the-attack-on-dr-laurie-rubels-work-standwithlaurierubel/#more-14
On the home page of that site you can navigate to other mini-controversies involving their fellow academics.
And if you look around, ethnomathematics is definitely a real and rising thing. Here's one summary description:
https://www.science.org.au/curious/space-time/ethnomathematics
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Follow Ups
- And here's the proposed math ethnic studies framework from Seattle - Dave_K 01/4/2113:31:46 01/4/21 (1)
- Dave - Thank you VERY much for your efforts to get a basis of reality going in this discussion! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 00:50:16 01/5/21 (0)