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And here's the proposed math ethnic studies framework from Seattle

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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