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Glenn Grothman: “The idea that black kids learn math differently from white…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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Glenn Grothman Discusses DEI and Colorblindness with Doctor Smith

Published | Video Starts at 01:33

To answer your question more directly, there are some egregious pedagogies out there that I think we need to talk about, like ethnomathematics, for example. The idea that black kids learn math differently from white kids and therefore we need black math. That's stupid. I'm going to be simple about it. It's really stupid. The idea that getting the right answer is somehow inherently white is stupid. (01:33–01:43)

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Asserts that the idea of needing different math for black kids is stupid.

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