Opinion: Math education is enriched when it’s contextualized, when students learn of the social and political milieu in which math has been practised.
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Echoing DeSantis, the op-ed concludes that “the sum of two and two is not changed by whether people are oppressed or not,” and “schools should just teach numbers.”Article content Indeed, in The Emergence of Probability and The Taming of Chance, Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking explains how statistical thinking transformed the modern world. Before the emergence of statistics and probability theory, people believed that the world was determined, that the past would always dictate the future.Article content
In the early modern period, Hacking notes, the “census was more an affair of the colonies than of the homelands.” So Spain conducted a census of Peru in the mid-16th century, and England carried out a census of Ireland in the 17th century. When it came to surveying their own people, the rulers also asked questions that benefited them, rather than the people. In the 18th century, Prussia’s census included “a completely separate and regular enumeration of all Jewish households.” No other minority group was treated similarly. And France, concerned as it was with a declining birthrate, became obsessed with “degeneracy” — crime and mental illness — among its people.
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