Yesterday a Native American student filmed this video in his Math class.

[Nevilledog]

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Yesterday a Native American student filmed this video in his Math class. After several minutes of the teacher “war hooping & tomahawk chopping” the student began filming because he, “felt that violence was being committed against him and he had the right to record.”


5:56 PM · Oct 20, 2021

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[rockfordfile]

1. That pos should be fired

[Hortensis]

54. :) Seems a little excessive. What was her intent?

If she turns out to be as clueless an idiot as she seems, perhaps a talking to by the principal, some sensitivity training, and of course sending her off to improve her teaching skills would do?

I was going to include making her watch this video of herself, but no doubt some would consider that excessively cruel. I disagree given that the kids had to watch it and would remind them to at least be glad that we're not burning her as a witch or tying her to a cart and whipping her out of town.

We do advance.

[milestogo]

2. Was it calculus?

Cuz that made me crazy.

[caraher]

34. Trigonometry

SOH-CAH-TOA is a mnemonic for the relationship between the lengths of sides of a right triangle and the sine, cosine, and tangent of one of the other interior angles:

Sine theta = Opposite / Hypoteneuse
Cosine theta = Adjacent / Hypoteneuse
Tangent theta = Opposite / Adjacent

Somehow I managed to learn the mnemonic without a performance like that...

[TheBlackAdder]

49. Must be something with Trig. My trig teacher was imprisoned for ice picking a teacher he was dating.

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The guy gave me the creeps and I was afraid a few times because he would have manic episodes in class. A few times I feigned sickness to stay home from school.

He would have teen HS girl students over to his apartment where they would drink and do drugs. None of the boys, just girls.


That teacher he dated, BTW, was killed as he stabbed her over 40 times.

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[caraher]

62. Students need trig in what I'm teaching now...

and I chose to include a "Trig Warning" at the start of the quarter

Your teacher... I'm gonna venture that the problem there was not trigonometry!

[Marcuse]

63. Some Of His Children Are Having Trouble Over Algebra

[Skittles]

3. this gal should not be teaching ANYTHING

she needs help

[Bev54]

22. I agree, there is something seriously wrong with her n/t

[Celerity]

4. wtf

[madaboutharry]

5. I never liked teachers who pulled stunts because they

thought they would look cool to their students.

It is the 21st century, she should understand that what she did is no different than showing up in Blackface, or some other exaggerated ethnic or racist costume.

[Solly Mack]

6. Isn't she just a miracle of affliction?

[Deuxcents]

7. This is disturbing

I hope her career as a teacher is terminated

[LeftInTX]

8. What does this have to do with math?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

11. From the thread

There’s some pneumonic device for remembering sines cosines and tangents, Soh Cah Toa.

[LeftInTX]

16. Good gosh...I can see saying Soh Cah Toa once or twice.....

No need for theatrics.
We never learned any tricks.


Sine was first because that is how you graph angles....LOL...The vertical is a measure of the angle, (Y-axis) so you measure the vertical then put that over the hypotenuse...The tangent is easy because it is the right angle thing (Y/X)...The cosine is the odd one out. (X-axis)

She's much better off drawing all of this out via graphs. This is plain old stupid.

So when in doubt between cosine and sine, just remember which one you learned first in geometry class. It's sine. Tangent doesn't need anything tricks to remember.

[ShazzieB]

31. Is THAT what she said?

I couldn't understand a word of it!

Of course, I didn't make it past Algebra 1, so I don't know what most of it means anyway.

Four years of college plus a master's degree, but I'm a complete idiot when it comes to math. That's what happens when your parents move the family 3 times during high school, and you keep getting put in the wrong classes by people who don't know how to read a transcript and fall farther and farther behind till you give up.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

50. I admit I don't remember any of this

But I also wonder about dressing up in that stupid costume to teach high school juniors. Ignoring the racism, didn't kids outgrow that sort of lesson plan around age 10?

[LeftInTX]

52. I know, right? Those students must have awful earworms..

I probably would have filmed also just to show the world, "My weird teacher..."

The marker board (thank god there are no more chalk boards), transparencies and textbooks would have gotten the point across effectively.
Write SOH next to sine...COH next to cosine and TOA next to tangent. Say it a only few times, just to remember it. Math is a visual subject, not an oral subject. You can say "SO-KAH-TO-AH" all day, but if you can't remember the spelling, it's a useless earworm.

I gotta admit, I got a "SO-KAH-TO-AH, SO-KAH-TO-AH, SO-KAH-TO-AH" earworm in my head today, but it's the spelling stupid, not a useless chant...

[JHB]

44. A "mnemonic" device. A pneumonic device is medical equipment to help breathing.

Ventilator, iron lung, etc.

[FSogol]

45. A pneumonic-mnemonic device is medical equipment to help you remember to breathe.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

51. Thanks, I knew it didn't look right...

[Demovictory9]

9. wtf

[Captain Zero]

37. And her pants look ridiculous too.

nt

[Mary in S. Carolina]

10. I will call tomorrow

[brush]

12. What stupidity. Get her out of the classroom and into sensitivity training.

[Midnight Writer]

13. Next week she was planning a class on the Civil Rights Movement.

[vercetti2021]

14. She looks like a massive nutcase

The fuck does this have to do with math?

[msongs]

15. I am a graduate of John w North HS...but not recently. it was loads of fun at the time nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. Somehow, I don't see any teaching of math taking place.

Which is at least as much an issue as the behavior of the teacher.

[LeftInTX]

18. Is she on drugs?

[3auld6phart]

19. Absolutely

bloody disgusting. That skank should be terminated.
Is she mental?

[UTUSN]

20. Well, that was disgusting.

[Initech]

21. WTF is wrong with people?

[Skittles]

24. too many people live in a bubble

try to imagine the mentality it would take to think that this was a good decision

[greenjar_01]

23. Outrage of the Day! Outrage!

Listen, this is racist as fuck, but teaching Soh-Cah-Toa as some "Indian princess" nonsense has been common in math education since the 1960s, if not earlier. She doing it because that's how she was taught to teach it and has prob been doing this shit for years.

[dchill]

25. "It's how we've always done it."

"That's a lousy defense."

[greenjar_01]

26. It wasn't a defense

It's an indictment of something larger than this individual, though it's much easier to sputter and shake fist at this one person.

I also didn't say that's how they've always done it. I gave a specific historical timeframe for this racist stupidity.

Thanks, though. Everything else you said was correct.

[LeftInTX]

27. I never learned this. I also tutored college algebra and trigonometry for three years

The tutoring program was a grant for at risk students...Never heard of SOH CAH TOA until tonight.

I graduated from HS in 1974.

I did find a bunch of YouTube videos with Soh Coa Toa, but they didn't involve "Indian princesses"

[Buckeye_Democrat]

30. Thanks for the explanatory videos.

It was never used as a teaching method in my trigonometry class, back in the 80's.

I would've remembered that!

[obamanut2012]

43. Mine either, same era

It would have greatly helped me in trig!

[ProfessorGAC]

64. Same Time Frame Here

I left high school after 3 years to go to college. So, I took trig in '72-'73.
I never heard of this mnemonic, either.
Even after reading about it, I don't get it.
Not sure how it helps to remember the relationships.
Guess it wasn't meant for me.

[yardwork]

38. It is outrageous. This is exactly the problem, right here.

Behavior like this IS outrageous and requires outrage. Just because some people have been doing racist bigoted shit "forever" is not an excuse for the rest of us to go along with it. We need to speak up.

Outrageous behavior requires outrage. I'm speaking up.

[eShirl]

39. A teacher in 2021 needs to know better.

This isn't 60 years ago anymore.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

40. "This is racist as fuck, but..."

Yes. It is. Which is why it’s an outrage.

[dsc]

42. really?

I have taught math for decades and before that was a math student for a decade and I don't recall any Indian princesses coming up when using that neumonic device.

[RobinA]

59. So THAT'S My Problem

with math. This sine/cosine nonsense was Greek to me, but nobody taught me any Indian princess mnemonic. I could have been a math major!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

28. What in tarnation was that?!

I never saw any of my teachers, at any level, ever behave like that!

Is that woman on drugs, or mentally ill?!

[LeftInTX]

29. I know...

[jcgoldie]

32. Its not a defense because the dance and chant is offensive but...

I have taught that mnemonic device for years in HS trig. She thinks if she makes a spectacle it will stick in their minds I suppose. Get that woman some sensitivity training...

[madville]

47. I remember it too

I bet the students in this teacher’s class won’t ever forget it now, that’s for sure!

[Raine]

33. What the hell did her disgusting stunt 💩 have to do with math ... REPULSIVE!

Edit:

OK I see further up there's an explanation for her madness but what she did is insulting and she looks like an IDIOT!

[raccoon]

55. Maybe her little dance had to do with METH. nt

[Raine]

60. LOL! 👍 nt

[Throck]

35. Isn't it obvious?

She was teaching division.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. Good one!

[dsc]

41. as a math teacher all I can say is yikes

I get that it is important for a geometry or trig class to learn this, but there are multiple ways to do this that aren't a disgrace.

For example Some Old Hippie, caught another hippie, trippin on acid. Sine opposite hypotenuse, cos adjacent hypotenuse, tan opposite adjacent.

[madville]

46. Any details on the teacher's ancestry?

If she has some Native American ancestry does that give her a pass to identify as such?

[DeeNice]

48. would a modern day Stepin Fetchit get a pass? nt

[LeftInTX]

58. Is this for real???

Sorry, I'm not NA, but I've been to pow-wows as a kid (in the 60s) and they can be watched on YouTube, these teachers' movements etc do not bear any resemblance to anything that I have ever seen.......Apparently the chants don't seem to have verbal meaning: While the drum is central to pow wows, "the drum only helps them keep beat. Dancers key on the melody of the song. Rhythms, tones, pitch all help create their 'moves'." (p. 85) Note that Bill Runs Above did not mention the lyrics of the songs, and while they are no doubt important, most lyrics of most songs employ vocables, syllable sounds such as "ya", "hey", and "loi" (p. 86).[15] This is particularly evident in intertribal songs, such as the AIM Song, which cannot be biased towards a certain language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pow_wow

When I went to the pow-wows, they were weekly events. I don't believe they were competitions. They were social gatherings, cultural events, tourist events and fundraisers. They still have them every week on the same reservation. Going to the pow-wow was always one of the highlights of our week up north. (As a matter of fact, it made going up north tolerable. Me: "When are we going to the pow-wow, because it's too cold to swim. I'm bored, when are we going to the pow-wow?" )

Video of the weekly pow-wow I would attend. They built a new facility and this was the last pow-wow at the old one.

[Wingus Dingus]

53. Hard to understand how she thought this was OK, racially-speaking, but mostly

she just seems very wound-up, or having some sort of manic-energy episode. Trying way too hard to get the kids' attention.

[Patton French]

56. What in the world?!? (n/t)

[PunkinPi]

61. The "teacher" has been placed on leave...