General CRT Knowledge
This term is defined as having an explicitly race conscious approach to education
A.) Dysconscious racism
B.) Racecentricity
C.) Critical Race Theory
D.) Afrofuturism
B.) Racecentricity
What scholars look to is an education where Black students thrive in their education by centering their cultural identities and challenging systemic racism.
A.) Racial Realities
B.) Inferiority Paradigm
C.) Afrofuturism
D.) Mystification
C.) Afrofuturism
Scholars are seeking to understand the foundation of racial realities and how we can acknowledge them in education. It seeks a future where we understand and incorporate cultural identities in our education system. Especially math so that we can tailor instruction to include and see everyone, especially Black children who haven't had the opportunities presented to them.
Allows Black learners to flourish in their humanity and is given as a form of BlackLife-making in response to perpetual social death associated with antiBlackness and systemic violence
A.) Theory of Racism
B.) Critical Race Theory
C.) Symbolic Violence
D.) Black Liberatory Mathematics Education
D.) Black Liberatory Mathematics Education
True or False: The achievement gap refers to the persistent disparity in academic performance between white students and students of color in math education, which is often used to reinforce racial hierarchies.
True
This idea creates space for Black Liberatory Fantasy and resists the revisionist history that hides the fact that white people have been at the top of racial dominance for centuries by telling false narratives.
A.) Critical Race Theory
B.) BlackCrit
C.) Afrofuturism
D.) Racial Cost
B.) BlackCrit
A major critique of Critical Race Theory is that it looks at liberal multiculturalism and white supremacy. Therefore, white ideologies are still at the forefront of the theory. On the other hand, BlackCrit primarily focuses on Black people and humanizing them in education.
This term refers to the unspoken social, political, and cultural norms embedded in math education, influencing how students experience learning.
A.) What is the hidden curriculum?
B.) What is the implicit bias equation?
C.) What is the cultural competency formula?
D.) What is the silent syllabus?
A.) What is the hidden curriculum?
Which of the following statements is true about color blindness in education?
A) Color blindness promotes race neutrality by treating all students the same, regardless of race.
B) Color blindness ignores systemic barriers and inequities faced by students of color, overlooking structural racism in education.
C) Color consciousness leads to racial preference, creating unfair advantages for certain racial groups.
D) Color blindness eliminates bias and creates equal opportunities for all students.
B) Color blindness ignores systemic barriers and inequities faced by students of color, overlooking structural racism in education.
True or False: Deficit narratives have caused a rift between scholarly discourse and
racial reality.
True
Deficit narrative refers to mainstream, white-centered narratives. There are so many varying responses to these narratives that there is a boundary between scholars and racial realities.
According to Critical Race Theory, this concept describes the idea that race and racism are permanent features in all areas of society, including mathematics education.
A.) What is the permanence of race?
B.) What is the systemic bias theorem?
C.) What is the racial neutrality paradox?
D.) What is the institutional inequality hypothesis?
A.) What is the permanence of race?
Communications that exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person of color.
A.) Microinvalidations
B.) Racial Violence
C.) Representation
D.) Counter-Narratives
A.) Microinvalidations
There are a couple of ways this fits into math education. There are teachers who stereotype student experience and tailor problem-solving questions to these microinvalidations. For example, in NY and Georgia questions were being given to Black students based on drugs, gangs, and pregnancy. Another example is when teachers say to students “your race should be proud of you for doing so well in math.”
There is a common misconception that improving this aspect of education alone will guarantee student success, even though broader systemic factors also play a significant role.
A.) Curriculum Development
B.) Student Achievement
C.) Classroom Management
D.) Standardized Testing
B.) Student Achievement
True or false: Black specificity blames physical nature for racism rather than human modes of subjectivity
False
Wynter refers to Black Specificity as moving us from a “loss of trust in physical nature to a loss of trust in our modes of subjectivity, of being.” This takes the blame of a race or a certain people, something that isn’t changeable, and puts it on human perspective which can be changed. An example in math education is this takes the blame of the child for not doing well and instead causes one to reflect on how they delivered content.
Which is not an example of a useful CRT tenet in mathematics education?
A.) Counter-stories
B.)Intellectual property
C.) Whiteness as property
D.) All are useful CRT tenets in mathematics education
D.) All are useful CRT tenets in mathematics education
These five strands—conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, adaptive reasoning, strategic competence, and productive disposition—represent a comprehensive view of mathematical proficiency.
A.) What are the pillars of mathematical achievement?
B.) What are the strands of mathematical proficiency?
C.) What are the domains of numeracy?
D.) What are the principles of mathematical logic?
B.) What are the strands of mathematical proficiency?
What Percent of secondary mathematics teachers are Black?
A.) 20% of secondary mathematics teachers are Black
B.) 6% of secondary mathematics teachers are Black
C.) 50% of secondary mathematics teachers are Black
D.) 4 % of secondary mathematics teachers are Black
B.) 6% of secondary mathematics teachers are Black
True or False: Mathematics education is an intellectual discipline that is racially neutral
False
Mathematics education is a highly racialized enterprise. Mathematics educators and researchers argue that mathematics education serves as an institutional space of Whiteness and is based on the ideals, interests, and values of whites
What is true of the interest convergence principle?
A.) Hinged on 1954 Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education
B.) Suggests that perceived gains in civil rights should be approached with caution and should not be accepted at face value
C.) Argues that Whites will oppose policies that threaten their socially constructed status as racially superior
D.) All statements are true
D.) All statements are true
What should mathematics educators make sure to do in the classroom?
A.) Continue to address the issues of race and racism in instructional practices
B.) Teach critical race counter-stories, allegories, and revisionist histories in tandem with mathematics standards
C.) Conduct critical race analyses of mathematics curricula
D.) All of the above
D.) All of the above
This movement aimed to enroll all students in Algebra I by 8th grade, but often mislabeled courses, providing pre-algebra content instead of actual Algebra I.
A.) Equal Math Opportunity initiative
B.) Math for Everyone campaign
C.) Universal Algebra program
D.) Algebra for All movement
D.) Algebra for All movement
True or False: Black students often have unprepared or unqualified math teachers, below-standard math curriculum, poorly managed classrooms which negatively impacts their quality of education
True
True or False: Brown vs. Board of Education helped advance critical race theory ideas
False