{"id":84415,"date":"2016-01-04T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84415"},"modified":"2016-01-04T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:02:43","slug":"how-to-teach-math-to-black-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84415","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Math to Black Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Shahid Muhammad. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Teach-Math-Black-Students\/dp\/0913543977\/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1451933978&#038;sr=1-7&#038;keywords=black+math\">Amazon.com<\/a>: &#8220;Intended for parents and teachers of African American students, this book provides strategies for correcting the racial achievement gap in upper-grade mathematics. Advice is provided on instilling confidence in African American students and on teaching math in a less sterile and theoretical way. Also explored is how critical thinking skills are essential in understanding math. A wealth of ideas is provided on creating relevant word problems to help students better understand basic math functions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/black.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84416\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/black-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"black\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/black-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/black.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com reviews:<\/p>\n<p>* Anybody can say they&#8217;ve written a book theses days because of self-publishing. This book in no way describes any special teaching techniques or even any math history to inspire black students. It has a few word problems with &#8220;African-American&#8221; names substituted for &#8220;Emily&#8221; and &#8220;Ethan.&#8221; Do NOT waste your money.<\/p>\n<p>* The book combines questionable statements (Al Kharizmi is a black mathematician),wrong statements (&#8220;mathematics is prevalent in almost all careers and professions&#8221;), and mostly trivial statements (&#8220;teachers must &#8230;extinguish all negative verbal communications and interactions with the students&#8221;). Also you can find there derogatory generalizations about students (&#8220;youth occupy most of their free time watching television, listening to music,playing sports and games, or eating&#8221;)and teachers (&#8220;Educators are producing robots as opposed to thinkers&#8221;).Some advices suggested by the author are really funny,like the advice to college instructors to&#8221;have students develop songs, poems, sories, cartoons or rhymes on some math concept, pricipal,or skill&#8221;). What I couldn&#8217;t find in the book is the answer for the title question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shahid Muhammad. Amazon.com: &#8220;Intended for parents and teachers of African American students, this book provides strategies for correcting the racial achievement gap in upper-grade mathematics. 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