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September 25th Lecture to the Faculty of Emory and Henry College
The Mathematics of Social Justice
Entire Talk Slides
Description: What does mathematics have to with social justice? Are they
completely unrelated? In this talk we examine a number of topics ranging from.
Part I - "My Girlfriend Blythe and I get Pulled over."
How mathematics examines Racial profiling from the side of the cop and the solution it provides.
Part II - "Three Men, One Woman, Two Jobs, All Equally Skilled."
How mathematics makes it clear how often a woman (or minority) should be hired among a pool of evenly skilled people.
Part III- "You wouldn't be able to get away with this in another discipline. It's not
even close."
What is our responsibility as mathematicians to help out our society? Why do we spend so much time on the quadratic formula?
Part IV- "That's nonsense. But he is speaking nonsense too."
We investigate a statement in "Critical Race Theory" by an educated legal scholar is that is socially irresponsible.
Part V- "What do we want our students to know?"
We can teach this to anyone. Why don't we?
Part VI- "Question and Answer Period."
We take questions and answers from the faculty.
The Mathematics of Social Justice
Entire Talk Slides
Description: What does mathematics have to with social justice? Are they
completely unrelated? In this talk we examine a number of topics ranging from.
Part I - "My Girlfriend Blythe and I get Pulled over."
How mathematics examines Racial profiling from the side of the cop and the solution it provides.
Part II - "Three Men, One Woman, Two Jobs, All Equally Skilled."
How mathematics makes it clear how often a woman (or minority) should be hired among a pool of evenly skilled people.
Part III- "You wouldn't be able to get away with this in another discipline. It's not
even close."
What is our responsibility as mathematicians to help out our society? Why do we spend so much time on the quadratic formula?
Part IV- "That's nonsense. But he is speaking nonsense too."
We investigate a statement in "Critical Race Theory" by an educated legal scholar is that is socially irresponsible.
Part V- "What do we want our students to know?"
We can teach this to anyone. Why don't we?
Part VI- "Question and Answer Period."
We take questions and answers from the faculty.
