Editing Anti-bias curriculum (section)

== Examples ==
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[[Margaret Thatcher]], in a speech made during the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] Conference of 1987, referred to "[[hard left]] education authorities and extremist teachers" teaching "anti-racist mathematics—whatever that may be."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Thatcher|first1=Margaret|title=Speech to Conservative Party Conference|url=http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106941|publisher=Margaret Thatcher Foundation|access-date=4 May 2015|date=9 October 1987|quote=And in the inner cities—where youngsters must have a decent education if they are to have a better future—that opportunity is all too often snatched from them by hard left education authorities and extremist teachers. And children who need to be able to count and multiply are learning anti-racist mathematics—whatever that may be.|archive-date=26 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226213338/https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106941|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Anna S. King|author2-link=Michael Jonathan Reiss|author2=Michael Jonathan Reiss|title=The Multicultural Dimension of the National Curriculum|date=1993|isbn=9780750700696|edition=illustrated, reprint|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Q3MFCr7ht0C|access-date=4 May 2015|archive-date=18 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518004351/https://books.google.com/books?id=5Q3MFCr7ht0C|url-status=live}}</ref> and later on in 2005, ''[[Fox News]]'' carried a story detailing "The 'anti-racist education' program in place at [[Newton Public Schools]]."<ref>{{cite news|title='Anti-Racist' Message in Mass. Math Class|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/anti-racist-message-in-mass-math-class|access-date=4 October 2019|publisher=[[Fox News]]|date=8 February 2005|archive-date=18 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418203753/https://www.foxnews.com/story/anti-racist-message-in-mass-math-class|url-status=live}}</ref>

The article ''The Politics of Anti-Racist Mathematics'' by [[George Gheverghese Joseph]] goes through many different assumptions made by teachers of mathematics that can have a negative effect on students of [[Minority group|ethnic minorities]].<ref name="The Politics of Anti-Racist Mathematics">Joseph, George Gheverghese. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/EUE1056-4934260167 "The politics of anti-racist mathematics."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518004352/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/EUE1056-4934260167 |date=2022-05-18 }} ''[[European Education]]'' 26.1 (1994): 67-74.</ref> An anti-racist approach to [[mathematics education]] could include any or all of the following:
* Discussion of the [[History of mathematics|mathematical knowledge of ancient civilizations]] outside of Europe, and non-European contributions to mathematical knowledge and discovery;<ref>{{cite web|author1=Ramesh Gangolli|title=Asian Contributions to Mathematics|url=http://www.pps.k12.or.us/depts-c/mc-me/be-as-ma.pdf|access-date=4 May 2015|archive-date=21 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921231228/http://www.pps.k12.or.us/depts-c/mc-me/be-as-ma.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The avoidance of racial stereotypes or cultural bias in classroom material, [[textbook]]s, coursework topics and examination questions. For example, a wide range of names from various ethnic backgrounds might be used in [[Word problem (mathematics education)|word problem questions]].<ref>Kennedy, Leonard; Tipps, Steve; Johnson, Art (2007). "Guiding Children's Learning of Mathematics". Cengage Learning.</ref>

American mathematics instructor Shahid Muhammed has suggested that poor mathematics performance among [[African Americans]] is linked to higher anxiety caused by negative [[Stereotype|stereotyping]], as he states that many associate mathematics with [[Middle class|middle-class]] [[white people]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pitre|first1=Abul|last2=Pitre|first2=Esrom|last3=Ray|first3=Ruth|last4=Hilton-Pitre|first4=Twana|title=Educating African American Students: Foundations, Curriculum, and Experiences|date=15 August 2009|publisher=[[R&L Education]]|isbn=9781607092346|edition=illustrated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ta6_AAAAQBAJ|access-date=4 May 2015}}</ref>