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 Math prof who argues against ‘truths and knowledge’ to host Carleton College convocation
College Fix Staff •August 3, 2019

A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor who argues for a “movement against objects, truths, and knowledge” will be leading a confab at Minnesota’s Carleton College this October.

Carleton’s convocation series, described as “a shared campus experience that brings students, faculty, and staff together for […] a lecture or presentation from specialists in a variety of disciplines,” have “a rich history” dating back to the early 1940s.

Rochelle Gutiérrez, who teaches mathematics instruction and Latino/a studies, gained notoriety a year ago via a presentation she gave at a mathematics conference in India. The description of that talk, “Mathematx: Towards a way of Being,” states

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Math prof who argues against ‘truths and knowledge’ to host Carleton College convocation


Rochelle Gutiérrez, who teaches mathematics instruction and Latino/a studies,. . .


False advertising in the the headline.  She's not a math prof, she's a math ed prof, something very different.  She probably couldn't give a proof of the Pythagorean theorem to save her life, but is up on the all the latest politically correct enthusiasms which vainly purport to improve on memorizing math facts and teaching the basic algorithms for adding, subtracting, multiplying and doing long division with remainder.
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Of course she's against objective truth. She wants her ideological, quasi-reliigious truth to rule the day, as most cultists do.
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