we really didn t find anything that could even arguably be close to critical race theory at any of these textbooks. so then tell us what did you find in those math textbooks that reference rate, that has the republicans so worried. well it s interesting and as you mentioned most of the textbooks that were rejected were for elementary school students. we obtained four of the rejected textbooks for elementary school students. and in all of those textbooks, we couldn t find any mention of race in any context. even just in passing. in the middle school textbook that we obtained, there was only one that was rejected and we got our hands on it. we did find some very brief biographies in the margins of the book about famous mathematicians. and some of those mathematicians were african americans. for instance they had a brief biography of elbert cox, the
only one that was rejected and we got our hands on it. we did find some very brief biographies in the margins of the book about famous mathematicians. and some of those mathematicians were african americans. for instance they had a brief biography of elbert cox, the first african american to earn his ph. d.. but they had many biographies of people of all different races from different countries. so this certainly wasn t an emphasis on any particular one. in the high school text, there was an acknowledgment at times, and this is very brief mention, among hundreds, thousands of problems, some of the problems as part of the factual predicate for a math problem. would talk about racial disparities, for instance there was a problem that dealt with