Status Updates From What's Math Got to Do with ...

okay psych! I can't do it anymore, plus the library wants it back. I'm giving up on this book! 😂😂

Highlights the problems of comparing students to one another (rather than to the standard of progress), then in the next chapter bases her argument for gender equality of opportunity on comparing girls to boys rather than to the previously mentioned standard of progress. Really frustrating for a book that's been so good up to this point.

actually the most interesting book i’ve read this semester

i've never heard about "the math wars" (did they reached canada? are we past that?) but the fact that there are "extreme traditionalists" even in the math field, it hurts my brain a little.

well, i've already pulled out my sticky tabs to mark the pages that say something Deeply American™️ so we'll see how this goes