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How to Stop Averages from Colonising our Classrooms
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As the world of education begins to slowly engage with pedagogies that are more inclusive, decolonised, and anti-racist, a remaining point of failure across the board is the use of data. Our use of simple statistics whether introducing a country, using real-world numbers such as average salary for applied mathematics or explaining a biological phenomenon, can build harmful generalisations within our classrooms. In order to Decolonise our pedagogies and teach inclusively, we must consider our use of statistics and our application of mathematics.
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