Maths Games Pick Unfortunate Slavery Theme
In an approach to gain interest in a maths educational question a teacher in the USA used a questionable approach that involves a slave in the story line. Sent out to around 100 students the homework assignment has caused ructions with the educational authorities, parents and teachers.
The maths lesson sought to emphasis a piece of history involving a slave called Frederick Douglas. The stark approach involved calculating the impact of his environment whilst completing maths questions. But it seems this novel approach has backfired, not from the maths learnt but the reference to this distasteful element in history. Frankly if the children have learnt to calculate the impact of how mankind can act abominably it may help them understand the effect of slavery and the fact it still exists even today in civilised society.
The approach may have been a touch too radical for the location in which many descendants of slavery live. Yet it is a stark reminder to our educational needs of society in which we rely on the next generation to resolve the fact slavery still exists in the modern world issue. It may have been a course approach for children to learnt of the savagery of the lesson they learnt in maths homework. More….
