Anna Weltman Profile picture
PBL math curriculum writer and researcher, XQ Institute; author of Supermath and This Is Not a Math Book; she/her https://t.co/Rco8Ib4e6o
Sep 8, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
In honor of #ScholarStrike, I’m going to share some resources I know about math and policing. People use math to build policing that disproportionately harms people of color. And people use math to try to dismantle it. This reporting by @propublica about recidivism algorithms is excellent. High schoolers could read it. It highlights the math in a rigorous way while also being very human. propublica.org/article/machin…