3) 2+2=5 highlights that math has a cultural aspect in choosing definitions/conventions, selecting and bundling ideas, communicating them, etc.
https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/of-course-2-2-4-is-cultural-that-doesnt-mean-the-sum-could-be-anything-else
https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1290351418621210624?s=20

Once chosen, the deductive and symbolic part of math is fairly neutral. Cool.
5) These issues of bias and discrimination raise the question of curriculum. What belongs? What doesn’t? This is wildly complicated and goes to the heart of the question: What is (math) education for?

Anyone who has a simple answer is either wrong or deserves a Nobel Prize.
6) CJ: Postmodernism will burn the world to the ground

Response: https://twitter.com/katja_thieme/status/1290760621575639040?s=21

Fact: Embedding the mathematics and experiences of Yup’ik elders and teachers into math lessons led to improvements in the math performance of Alaskan students http://asdn.org/wp-content/uploads/Ethnomathematics-Applied-to-Classrooms-in-Alaska-Math-in-a-Cultural-Context.pdf
7) Bringing up 2+2=5 isn’t an attack on math, logic, bridges, spaceships, or civilization.

People are still trying to figure out how a critical view of math should translate into classroom practice. That’s OK.

Not OK: Missing the point and harassing people in the process.
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