Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 16^th, 2024 at 11:02pm:


"Decolonizing the curriculum including maths"????

These Universities and their woke wanker Lecturers are absolutely insane.

Nationally primary and secondary core subjects - reading, writing and arithmetic are failing to meet standards.

Before long we'll have generations of illiterate and innumerate youth ... along with the lack of respect and discipline is it any wonder we have a national juvenile crime wave at the moment?

There's no such thing as Aboriginal mathematics ... beyond 1, 2 many.

That these academics come up with this nonsense theory is one thing .... but having it indoctrinated/taught at all levels of education is lunacy. Teaching the teachers bullshyte.

Not just at the ANU:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/schooling/parents-and-carers/going-to-school/everyd
ay-maths/primary/resources/five-ways-maths-is-used-in-aboriginal-culture

Five ways maths is used in Aboriginal cultures

The numbers and operations in equations become symbols or characters. These characters then take part in a story. For example, the actions might bring characters together in a story (addition and multiplication) or take them apart (subtraction and division).

Counting in fives

Seasons and weather

For maths purposes, this is called 'Land links'. Land Links means working with plants and natural phenomena, such as rocks, or fauna, to find and solve maths problems, connecting science, art and cultural history with mathematics.

Using symbols and visuals to work with maths

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/maths/Pages/research_culturalperspective_connection.aspx

David Mowaljarlai clearly states that “Pattern thinking is Aboriginal thinking”. He also continues to state there is “no big boss” and “patterns are about belonging”.

This is a sophisticated way to see the world and demonstrates that Aboriginal knowledge systems are about sustainability and an understanding of why Aboriginal people are the oldest living culture in the world.

https://www.narragunnawali.org.au/mathematics-resource-guide#:~:text=For%20Aboriginal%20and%20Torres%20Strait,physical%20and%20socio%2Dcultural%20environment.

‘In Australia, mathematical systems have been developed over tens of thousands of years to create intricate kinship systems ensuring genetic vigor...Weight systems were based not on numbers, but on patterns of natural objects such as shells…Geometry was used in calculating time according to the angles and position of the sun, moon and stars at different times, governing predictions about seasons and weather…Although in many Australian Indigenous cultures numbers had no names beyond three, large-scale quantifying was still used in records and calculations through patterns and diagrams on rocks, trees, bark and message sticks…Many language groups in New South Wales developed base five number systems. Calculators for this were developed based on one-to-one correspondence, using materials such as honky nuts (like a disposable abacus system), and served to perform calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.’

https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/maths-has-no-borders-professor-rowen
a-ball-brings-indigenous-mathematics-anu

“Mathematics is a universal human phenomenon, and students of under-represented and minority groups and colonised peoples are starting to be more critical about accepting unquestioningly the cultural hegemony of mainstream European-based mathematics,” says Professor Rowena Ball from the ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute.

Here, in Australia, we are still in the early stages of the decolonisation journey. There is a curiously persistent trope that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had only rudimentary mathematical knowledge, despite widespread evidence to the contrary.

Professor Rowena Ball heads a research team of 2 .. herself and Hong Zhan Xu - a Post-doctoral Fellow.

So her and a side-kick are " Exploring Qualitative Mathematical Modelling and the Mathematics of Traditional and Indigenous Cultures"...

from around the world... so she should already know that other Indigenous Cultures were far more advanced than Australian Aboriginals.

They really did have the ability to build communities with housing(not gunyahs),more advanced hunting tools like bows & arrows, actual cooking & storage tools i.e. pottery and many had ocean going boats - not just tree trunk dugout canoes.

So this shyte she's trying to make applicable to Aboriginals is just a theory that she has loaded up with woke white guilt and privilege in the use of "decolonisation", "bridge the gap", "cultural diversity" by  incorporating non-Western perspectives.

Seeings she's a woke white western woman how's she going to do that?

Talk to your Marcia Langtons, Noel Pearsons, Mick Dodsons, Linda Burneys, Thomas Mayos, Megan Davis', Kangaroo Ken Wyatts ????? I'm sure they could make something up.

or the uneducated animals that have been running amok in Alice Springs?

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/do-clean-energy-with-us-not-to-us-first...

I put this in here even though this gathering of the true believers was in SA... it's a national issue.... so more appropriate for the Gaga Strip.

This'll get Sacka going, champs ... told yez it all comes out on the weekend when it's quiet and nobody really notices.... most of these things are announced across the media on Sundays etc ... but I'll keep alerting yez to it all..... no need to thank me or  pay me ... yez really oughta read the comments to see what people really think - bet you won't:-

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/indigenous-voice-architects-back-greens...

We demand a chief component of the voice - that one step at a time thing going on by stealth - in this 'truth and justice commission' - as usual one-sided..... only certain groups may apply to be heard ........ and we further demand that Albo set it in place because he promised Labor would do so.... so stuff the Vote .... we don't abide by those rules... in our mob we tell 'em an' they 'listen' or they cop it!!!

                                                                                                                            truth hurts, doesn't it?                                                

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/indigenous-truth-telling-commission-to-...

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/hospital-introduces-aboriginal-lounge-a...

More Apartheid.  'culturally safe' - from what?  The White Man's Invasive Hospitals? Nah - it's so they don't have to mingle with other people and have to accept the same treatment... or, even worse, the idea is to keep them separate so they don't cause the trouble....