Oregon’s Education Department is promoting a training program that will offer a toolkit to help teachers “develop an anti-racist math practice.” As noted in a newsletter sent by the department, middle school teachers are encouraged to register for a Feb. 21 course titled “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” which they say is designed to help them make use of “key tools for engagement [and] strategies to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students.” According to the toolkit, one of the ways to achieve this goal is by “visibilizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.” The alleged “toxic characteristics” include, among many others, focusing on getting the right answer, students being required to show their work, and teachers “treating mistakes as problems by equating them with wrongness.” “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as …