Saturday, May 11, 2024

Black Catholic girls innovate math (60 Mins)

Jesus was from Africa. So how could he be Black? His mother was Black in Europe for years.

Hidden Figures (Black math)
Black Madonna would be proud like we all are. Who knew girls could do math? Everyone. Who knew girls could teach old white mean a thing or two? No one.

What have we lost because of sexism and racism? They deprive us of so much human greatness that they have to be stopped.

A world of parity and equal opportunity would be a much more amazing place. The way we've lived has advanced us but brought us to the edge of ruin. And the problem cannot be solved at the same level of the problem.

We need breakthroughs -- insight, ingenuity, innovation, and some follow through. Could the Hollywood movie Hidden Figures really be a true story that no one had ever heard of? We doubt it, but that's what Hollywood would have us believe is pure history.

Teens surprise math world with Pythagorean Theorem trigonometry proof

(60 Minutes) May 6, 2024: A high school teacher didn’t expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.


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  • 60 Minutes, May 6, 2024; Hidden Figures (2016); Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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