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Originally Posted by campfirewest
Why would CRT be in a math book, and what does that look like exactly?
In math education, we often try to make the mathematics relevant for the lives of students, to help them reason mathematically about issues of relevance to them. So if you are learning about statistics, for instance, you might see actual data sets, where some measure is broken out by different racial groups. That this is “critical race theory” is largely some imagined bogeyman of the right, but math textbooks nevertheless are not completely isolated from social issues and if one has strong political opinions about say not exposing students to any evidence about racial disparities, then a dataset that shows this in a math textbook can find itself banned by republicans.