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by Kranar 1249 days ago
The question was not about the general claim regarding childhood education and the multitude of ways that children can learn mathematics. A specific claim was made that matrix multiplication is racist. Children don't learn about matrices to begin with, so discussing childhood math education is irrelevant.

Can someone cite a source to such a claim?
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genderwhy 1249 days ago
I was asserting that the parent comment was misremembering, misquoting, or mistaken. There are no claims that "Matrix multiplication is racist". There are claims regarding multiplication tables.

So the parent probably meant "Multiplication tables are racist!". Which, again, is a reduction/strawman.

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Kranar 1249 days ago
Can you cite a source to a claim that multiplication tables are racist?

All I managed to find was one book called "Multiplication is for White People." but it's not actually about multiplication tables or even math specifically. The title is a quote from a child that the author taught and is a broader book about the U.S. education system and its growing achievement gap.

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