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Ok be honest, candidates. I really love this set of questions, I’ve been considering shifting my current interview style to these questions - I think they really give you an idea of who this person would be within the work setting. But the questions almost feel too deep for a recruiter to ask. What would you think if a recruiter took a different path and asked these questions instead of the usual ones?
https://blog.shrm.org/blog/9-interesting-interview-questions-that-actually-reveal-a-lot-about-candidat
Has anyone taken the CAIA ? Any tips ?
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Interviewer : Why do you need this job?
Me :
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Saw this on Twitter. Just sharing!
an Elementary School Mathematics Teacher
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… Okay, this is going to sound like semantics nitpicking, but hear me out. I would define math as the study of quantity patterns. It is abstract in the absence of context, and it can absolutely exist in its abstract form. It does not require context. When context is introduced, it becomes applied math and is no longer solely math. Now it is also sociology or economics or paleontology or physics (all this would depend on context). Math alone, because it is abstract and without context when by itself, cannot be oppressive or liberating or good or bad or any other label that includes a value judgement. Value judgements require context. So to say math is oppressive blurs the definition of math. It would be more correct to say math has been used to create oppressive tools or machines or justifications for oppressive practices.
And it absolutely has been used to create these things. But so has everything else. Physics has been used to fight oppressive wars by making deadlier weapons. Eloquent oration has been used to justify unjust causes. Political science and economics are notorious for being twisted to justify rich vs poor divisions.
Why does this matter? Because I can’t get through the required Algebra 2 curriculum as is. If we want to include historical contexts of when math was used in concert with other subjects to justify/create oppression, we need to change the math standards. That also means we need to either change college entrance exams or accept that our students won’t do as well on them. (The latter strikes me as a new form of oppression in the name of learning about oppression.)
So this needs to be a societal change where we all agree to walk back student achievement in abstract math concepts across the board, or we need to acknowledge that core math teachers are already under significant time crunches and ask civics teachers to incorporate the idea that math and science can be used oppressively. (Our history teachers already do this.) The first option will never fly because we’ll fall further behind math aptitude testing relative to other developed countries. So I vote for the second option because abstract math lacks the context necessary for value judgements anyway and because applied math has already involved other subjects. It’s never just math. It’s almost always math and science in a civics context. So let’s talk about that in civics.
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