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What you "maths is racist" brigade fail to understand is that how maths is taught affects how it is used.

I used an example of a self confessed lab technician to illustrate my point. Imagine such a person insisting Physics must be believed. If I teach my students to believe the Physics I teach them, I am setting them up for failure as they will not be able to reason and think for themselves. When I set them exams in Physics, it will focus on them giving the right answers instead of showing what they understand, and if they don't give the right answers I must fail them, which is why our Nigerian education favours those who can cram and regurgitate what they have memorized even though they do not understand it. You see the same thing play out here when people post 'facts' they believe without being able to process what they post and then insisting it must be believed by others.

That's not how we teach in UK. We do not teach you to believe in UK anymore. It is understanding that is key. You can give the wrong answer and still have a worthy understanding that can be built on. The difference between the two is an education that is useful to the individual because it has developed the student's mind, while our Nigeria education has just filled the student's mind with useless facts that must be believed. We get this silly way of educating from religion, which teaches belief instead of how to use your mind to ask and knock and seek. Just try reasoning with most Nigerians about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and listen to them insist that Adam and Eve who went on to populate the earth and live another 800 years, surely died on the day that they ate the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They believe and can not think nor reason or even accept what they see and read with their own eyes.

But I guess you need to know about theories of learning, and how education makes the person, to really understand the damage we do with our Nigerian education system, though the clue is obvious in the numerous unemployable graduates we produce every year.

basilico:
again we go back to denials.

Is the Wall Street Journal a Conservative
Publisher?
www.investopedia.com › ask › answers
The Wall Street Journal's news reporting
is generally considered to be fair and
objective, and mostly factual.

I am certain you were here when it was agreed that all media can be biased and everyone should use their own brain and mind instead of stupidly swallowing what media tells them to.

benalvino2:
Budaatum, I agree with this part of the book if it helps minority and if they are under represented here.

That is the fundamental aspect of the book.

Over here in UK it is white kids that are underperforming, and the solutions in that book are what are being applied to solve the same issues, so claiming "maths is racist", as opposed to "how maths is taught being racist", or disadvantageous to a particular group due to other factors like poverty, lack of inspiration, role models, caring teachers etc, is just unintelligent and not worth my time.

Go and read the book yourself instead of parroting biased ignorant commentaries. Not being in the West is no excuse for not using your own brain and mind.

https://equitablemath.org/

basilico:
Not just that book

So, this is the person misinforming people about Article 20 without informing people that self determination is what democracy gives as the right to elect your leaders?!!?

Shame on him!

budaatum:
It is not the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, as you claimed, but I am willing to allow it, and suggest you go do some research because what you posted does not give a right of seccession. If it did, it is the same Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Catalan would have used it to secede from Spain, Scotland would have used it to secede from Britain, California and Texas might have used it to secede from the United States of America already, and Hong Kong and China would definitely have used it to secede from China, since the countrys they are part of are all signatories to the United Nations which gives that the same Right.

In fact, if it did give the right of secession, no country on earth would have signed it. But if you think otherwise, please provide just one country where secession has happened under Article 20.

The clue to its inapplicability is in "Colonized or oppressed peoples". You are not colonized, and you can't exactly prove you are oppressed, and even if it did apply, the place to be proving it is in the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, and not by agitating on the streets.

basilico:
Maths is racist according to the left. That is part of the lunacy of the left.

Sorry bas.

benalvino2:
I said a book implied maths is racist. I am not responsible for your bias clouding your judgment. If you read the book you will see it.

I am not prepared to repeat educating you about your inability to accept you inferred wrongly what the book never implied. The word "instruction" is clear enough in its meaning.

basilico:
Are you blind? There are characters who denigrate others for having never flown in a plane ( forgetting some actually fly planes), are poverty stricken and can never get a visa to America

And those "others" are everyone in the West, bas, or are you the one who is blind to others in the West who don't think that way?

basilico:
I picked on the voting issue as an example. If maths is racist then there should be more vetting when it comes to STEM.

You claim "maths is racist", so I guess you can argue "maths is racist" with yourself, because no one else but you and ben are claiming "maths is racist"!

basilico:
There those who think being in the west makes them intelligent and the rest in Africa are poverty stricken

And in your own way of reasoning, everyone in the west must therefore "think being in the west makes them intelligent and the rest in Africa are poverty stricken"?

basilico:
The teacher of maths was being adviced to check his racial bias esp when teaching blacks is my understanding. Consequently making many blacks do lil bit poorly .
Should the poor maths performing blacks be vetted before being allowed to count votes?

Are the poor maths performing whites vetted before being allowed to count votes?

In fact, is counting maths, bas? Do you need to perform well in maths before we allow you to count and use money too?

basilico:
Always advice against siring across races especially when you have modest income.
Ive seen this in African countries. The half white African does not relate very well with black Africans.Actually many feel sort of superior to pure blacks.

Only ignorant people would take your advise. People with intelligence don't think or reason like you do.

paulolee:
thats nice n commendable unlike naija wey carry school for head kum say education is d key to success....tunder fire dt key bcox such no exist for naija settings

England does carry school for head and that's precisely why they want their pupils to arrive on Monday rested.

I just wish people would understand the errors of our education. We Nigerians educate our students to believe and become like stupid ignorant naked enslaved Adam, while England and most of the West educate their students to ask and knock and seek and become like use her own senses and become wise Eve.

basilico:
The point despite his modest background as compared to his competitors, did he miss a day of training, competition, play station , bus fare, three square meals etc unlike the others.
Or boys just looked at him as not white enough.

Another thing I'd like to know, maybe gossip tabloids may have this, who are his closest friends?
White, half caste or black?

He does not seem to have long time close friends outside his sport, and kept to himself with his brother growing up.

Below is anecdotal.

"I understand where he’s coming from; I too grew up in Stevenage. Hamilton’s mother and I went to the same school – though not at the same time. As close to London as it was, it might as well have been in a different universe. In London the Black experience appeared authentic; in Stevenage it felt synthetic. Race in London was something you read about in the papers; race in Stevenage was something you didn’t even acknowledge. I was 22 before I found my first Black male friend."

basilico:
Discussion about maths is racist did not conclude. Budaatum said blacks are affected by racism in teaching of maths and consistently do poorer in maths.

It's Sunday Bas. Don't lie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUu7ZGf4MpI

Bauke Mollema claimed a fine solo victory on stage 14 of the Tour de France as Guillaume Martin moved up to second overall behind Tadej Pogacar.

Dutchman Mollema broke clear of the rest of the breakaway with 42km of the 183.7km to Quillan left and won his second Tour stage by over a minute.

French rider Martin came home in a chasing group to move up seven places in the general classification.

Pogacar finished in a reduced peloton and leads by just over four minutes.

Mark Cavendish completed the stage well within the time limit alongside four of his Deceuninck-Quick-Step team-mates, over 25 minutes behind Mollema.

The Dutchman is over 30 minutes adrift in the general classification race this year but took advantage of indecision among his breakaway colleagues as he descended from the penultimate climb of the day on the Cote de Galinagues.

Once he had ridden clear of his 13 former companions - with an attack that bore similarities to his triumph on stage 15 into Le Puy-en-Velay in 2017 - he was able to pace himself perfectly to the finish.

"It's amazing to win a stage again," said Mollema

"I was feeling good so I thought, 'Let's go from far out'. I had the confidence I could ride alone and keep going for a long time."

Sunday's 191.3km route from Ceret to Andorre-La-Vieille sees the race leave France for the only time in this edition as it reaches the highest point on this year's route, at over 2,400m on the Port d'Envalira.

providence338:
Ok, no problem.

You don't have to agree with me at all.
And that's ok.

You're disagreeing with what's written.
I'm only relaying the written Word.

That said, Amazon's unveiled building plans for its new headquarters.
Nothing to see here....

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/amazon-hq2-design-helix/index.html

I am disagreeing with your understanding actually. It after all stands to reason that if God was afraid of the puny tower of Babel, God must be very afraid of an aeroplane that can fly much higher. And to claim God would cause confusion amongst people who unite for a purpose just shows that God should not be the God of inteligent people, as such a God would delight in confusion and disarray like we have here on Nairaland.

As for Amazon's new building, I just wish they'd build it in Nigeria.

basilico:
How much does it cost to race Go
Karts UK?

A rough guide to prices – One day
hire (that is 6 x 10 minute
sessions) for a practice day would
be in the region of £200 to £350
or more including Racewear, use
of mechanic and expert advice. To
hire a Kart for a race day – from
approx £250 including Racewear,
use of mechanic and advice on
track lines etc.

It does cost much more if you are not just out for a fun day and especially if you are competing as you'd more likely need to purchase your own cart if you wish to get anywhere with it, but Lewis was rags compared to most of his peers.

Others have it far easier. A few days after I speak to Hamilton, he comes second in the French Grand Prix. First is Max Verstappen, whose father is F1 driver Jos; third is Sergio Pérez, whose dad was a driver and agent, and who was sponsored at an early age by the son of billionaire Carlos Slim, formerly the world’s richest man. And fifth is Lando Norris, whose dad has a reported fortune of £200m. The only other driver in the top five with a regular background is Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, whose dad owns a small cleaning company and mum is an undertaker.

providence338:
The whole world was of ONE speech and ONE accord.

They were building a city, with a tower called "Babel". Its intention was to reach the heavens to fight God.

I'm sorry but I do not agree with your understanding at all!

If God was afraid that the tower of Babel would reach heaven, don't you think God would be a hundred times more afraid when humans build higher skyscrapers today, or landed on the moon or sent a probe to Jupiter?

They all are much higher than the tower of Babel and God must know that tower building is not the way to heaven nor God's Kingdom.

thebosstrevor1:
If you claim your party is democratic in nature, then you will give the people the power to choose who ever they want no matter if they decide to bring a man of the same tribe as them to rule.

You keep saying "your party" as if this thread is titled buda's democratic party! If you bothered to read the thread itself, you'd see the plan is for members to join the party of their choice and influence it so the candidate of their choice wins.

The hope is that we learn from our past errors of electing the wrong people and vote much more wisely next time, since it is us who suffer from our choice of bad leaders.

budaatum:
The Nairaland Democratic Party is not affiliated to either PDP or APC but if it chooses to affiliate, it shall be democratically decided by all members and be determined by the local conditions on ground such that in some places affiliation may be with PDP and in others with APC.

We must not mind which party we hijack so long as we win.

References:
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factions_in_the_Republican_Party_%28United_States%29?wprov=sfla1]Factions in the Republican Party (United States)[/url]
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factions_in_the_Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29?wprov=sfla1]Factions in the Democratic Party (United States)[/url]
History of the Conservative Party (UK)
History of the Labour Party (UK)

thebosstrevor1:
Trying to persuade people to choose your "superior" candidate is already undemocratic

Do you seriously think buda has some superpower to make anyone bow down and obey buda?

Not my superior candidate trevor, because I can not possibly be the only person with a brain or the knowledge to use a brain, and everyone else can not possibly just do as buda commands that they must!

The candidate that each individual considers superior to all other candidates is what is proposed. Just that hopefully you use an intelligent criteria to determine superiority and not just the ignorance of ethnicity nor religion nor gender nor sex nor tribe, as those are not really requirements for good governance.

It's however not by force that you use an intelligent criteria to vote for whoever you want to vote for, and you most definitely do not require buda's permission or approval.

basilico:
An IT manager job does not pay well .And eventually having your own firm.
He also attended a private high school.

Rags to riches .

The John Henry Newman School is a voluntary aided Catholic secondary school in Stevenage, and not a "private high school".

And to support his son, Hamilton's father took redundancy from his position as an IT manager and became a contractor, sometimes working up to four jobs at a time including employment as a double glazing salesman, dishwasher, and putting up signs for estate agents, while still attending his son's races. Hamilton's father later set up his own IT company.

So indeed rags to riches. The type Ben would argue one should be instead of allowing oneself to be held back by obstacles including race or what you call wokeness.

If I pay thousands for my child to "play", as you call it, benalvino2, its because I can see the value in the game they play.

thebosstrevor1:
Since your people won't choose their king from outside the ille oba, now why do you expect them to select a competent leader from outside their tribe or clan to represent them in political matters.

Or do you want to impose a leader on them, if your party is democratic then it will be power to the people to elect whoever they like to represent them.

My people in the Orolu Kingdom will vote for a governor for our state and that person will not be from amongst us in the Orolu Kingdom, nor will those we vote as president be from amongst us, so your point is rather mute as not everyone just goes for their tribe person.

Go check how many tribes peoples of Obasanjo did not vote for him, or see how many Igbos are not in support of Kanu, and you just might adjust your thinking. Even Buhari did not get the votes of all his ethnic people, so I really do not see the point you insist in making here except to claim your thinking is universal despite the fact that it very obviously isn't, at least not amongst those who can use their own brains.

In a democracy, which is not how we chose our Oba, mind, everyone gets to vote their hearts desires, and some may vote ethnicity and some may vote competency or whatever criteria they may decide to vote on, and whoever gets the most votes wins, and while we can ask, plead with you even, to vote on the criteria that we consider to be the superior criteria, we can not and are not imposing on you to choose as we wish.

Your vote. Your right. Do note.

thebosstrevor1:
Just because i said ethnicity matters in politics, you have twisted my words to means i favour ethnicity over competence,
anyway, you didn't answer any of my questions but try to beat around the bushes.

I asked you a simple question, will your people select a northerner that is competent to be the ruler of your town or village? Please answer me

The funniest stuff is you never gave any answer but you went on a motivational speech on why change starts from each of us.

I believe that you are naive of real political matters, your liberal view on how society and politics is supposed to work on applies on paper in reality it is impossible.

Go back and learn history and you see the same pattern, politics is localised, people will put in power, those that look like them and act like them.

Your question is rather irrelevant since my people can not even choose a king from outside the Ile Ọba from which our kings are chosen.

You are free and entitled to whatever opinion you may have of me. As you can see for yourself, others have expressed various opinions of me too, some worse than your opinion and some rather flattering, so buda lives. Hopefully, some will be motivated to surmount ethnicity and choose competency instead.

benalvino2:
go-Karting is not a childrens playground right? I am sure it's an academy which is why his dad invested a lot.

It actually is a childrens' playground and there's no academy involved. You simply invest in a cart and enter competitions. My nephew did it until he gave up for uni and he is not from a rich family. His parents just sacrificed a lot so he could and their sacrifice is paying off as he's now gone off to study mechanical engineering.

benalvino2:
He was bullied? Wrong but children go through that and even lookman is always bullying people here I wonder when someone will come out, talk about all this bullying shouting BLM

All I see here is him(Lewis) pushing BLM nothing else.

You are entitled to what you choose to see Ben, just don't expect those of us with better sight to see as little as you do.

ThePlainTruth:
Where is @Rightousness sef. Come tell them to focus on the RAPTURE intsead

For next time you are told to focus on some imaginary future,

budaatum:
While you concern yourselves with the afterlife, perhaps remember that [url=https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A25-34&version=KJV]Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof[/url].

providence338:
Hm...I respect your opinion.

But I'm curious as to why you quote it?
Or reference the Adam and Eve historical account contained therein?
Thus acknowledging your own existence as you did mine?

Just curious?

Why I quote the Bible?

Because it is a wonderful and amazing book with lots to teach those who ask and knock and seek to understand it as oppose to being lazy and just believing it.

Take what you claim is "the Adam and Eve historical account contained therein". You know you do not know if it historically happened or not, but you choose to believe it historically happened and therefore fail to read it and ask and knock and seek to understanding that which you read.

I mean, did Adam and Eve surely die on the day that they ate the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, or did they not gain wisdom and did their eyes not open and did they not see they were naked and did they not populate the earth and then go on to live for almost 800 years after eating that which we read will kill them on the day that they ate?

providence338:
Do you believe in the Bible?

I don't believe, period, as I see no merit in emulating demons.

I'm like Eve who would rather pluck the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and eat to see for herself if it is true that she would surely die on the day she ate it or not!

God gave me a brain and a mind and has shown me how to use it, and if I do not use it I will lose it because it would be taken away from me and I would end up touting baseless conspiracies like claiming Adam and Eve surely died on the day that they ate when it is clear they surely did not die on the day that they ate the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but found it good for gaining wisdom and opening eyes and who went on to populate the earth with what has culminated in your very self!

benalvino2:
He has the asset to send him to a school most people can't dream of going. I am not saying it's a bad thing, I am saying this man is being used to spread these nonsense. See how Megan Markle and prince Harry are playing victims. He has to push the wokeness. He probably didn't go through bullying and racism in anyway it will affect him in life.

All I see, is a man, a highly successful man playing victim to push a narrative.

"All you want to see" you mean, and without even bothering to look!

What school was that Ben? You never bothered to click the link and read the post so can't see for yourself that you are talking nonsense!

If you had read it, you'd see he actually epitomizes the sort of person you would say should and did not allow what you call woke to stop him achieving what he has achieved!

Lewis went to a regular school where he was bullied and excluded, and all he had was parents who did not seek equity for their son but put in the effort to sacrifice to give their child an advantage in life as every sensible parent ought to be doing!

While you concern yourselves with the afterlife, perhaps remember that [url=https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A25-34&version=KJV]Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof[/url].

benalvino2:
A Man who has probably seen nothing but silver and gold plates at his bed when he wakes up will always be used to spread all this. We need real victims to be the voice of all this movements, not people with enormous influence

"Probably", Ben? I wonder if you'd say that if you knew his background and recognised his father invested in seeking superior advantage in his upbringing just as I do with educating mine in Maths.

Hamilton’s father had to remortgage his house and spend all his and his second wife’s savings to get Lewis through just one year of go-karting. He was the lucky one among his peers. “We had dear friends who threw everything and the sink at it, and today don’t have any money,” Hamilton says.

Others have it far easier. A few days after I speak to Hamilton, he comes second in the French Grand Prix. First is Max Verstappen, whose father is F1 driver Jos; third is Sergio Pérez, whose dad was a driver and agent, and who was sponsored at an early age by the son of billionaire Carlos Slim, formerly the world’s richest man. And fifth is Lando Norris, whose dad has a reported fortune of £200m. The only other driver in the top five with a regular background is Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, whose dad owns a small cleaning company and mum is an undertaker.

Image123:
You need prayers.

Then let us pray.

O Lord God Almighty. We thank you immensely for our daily bread. Please do provide Image123 with daily bread too for his name is already on ours. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Lewis Hamilton: ‘Everything I’d suppressed came up – I had to speak out’
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/10/lewis-hamilton-everything-id-suppressed-came-up-i-had-to-speak-out