Norcross parents upset by slavery in school math worksheet

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21. It was an attempt to reference what they are studying in history

Gwinnett County School District officials said teachers were attempting to incorporate history into math lessons.

“Teachers were trying to do a cross-curricular activity,” district spokeswoman Sloan Roach told Channel 2.

Roach acknowledged the questions gave no context for the issues they raised.

I agree that it is jarring and inept, but this wasn't caused by racism. You can see how this happened - the math teachers were told "this is what we're on now," and the math teachers just reworded some old exercise problems to include some of the current terminology listed.

But placing the problems in the present context is entirely confusing, and I doubt this approach works very well at all in math at that age. At that age, you are mostly working on acquiring and drilling basic skills, and you want anything confusing left out. If you try to provide much of the context, now you are making it into more of reading lesson.

Still, even if they had had the wits to put the questions in the past tense....