Just being a little bit openly lefty while being a math educator would help a lot. Harder to tell people that all the ideas on the left are unrealistic / childish / the numbers don't add up / etc when the first lefty that comes to mind is their math teacher.
Also like... teach exponential functions and system modeling? The population of rabbits in this forest grows at 12% per year, what does the graph of population of rabbits over time look like? When are we drowning in rabbits? Here's a real graph of a real ecological model, why doesn't it look like that? Repeat a few times. By the way this is how compound interest works, and this is how reinvesting stock dividends works....
Engage your students. Model appropriate behavior, encourage self-driven learning. If you haven't yet, read Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Highly recommended for all leftists, required reading for leftist (or really all) teachers. The single most influential book for my pedagogy, one of the most important books for my ideology.
On a math perspective, I highly recommend reading What is Mathematics, Really? by Hersch. It's a truly enjoyable read.
Organize your workplace, do some mutual aid, the same as any other profession.
Marxism and socialism also has a real scientific and empirical basis, this blog contains some good background, if you ever want to talk about the math of socialism I guess. Cybersyn was pretty cool.
After I dropped out of high school, I lived with a guy for four years who was a pure of a mathematician as you're ever going to find. Real "beautiful mind" type of stuff going on with this guy. He was eventually diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder, but in all that time he has been a tutor and a best friend to me for 25 years now, so I'm just going to say that the best thing you can do for the left is to keep on teaching math. Number theory cracked my mind open in a way that LSD never did. It should be part of the curriculum in any society I want to build.
What can I, as a math educator, do to advance the left?
Just being a little bit openly lefty while being a math educator would help a lot. Harder to tell people that all the ideas on the left are unrealistic / childish / the numbers don't add up / etc when the first lefty that comes to mind is their math teacher.
Also like... teach exponential functions and system modeling? The population of rabbits in this forest grows at 12% per year, what does the graph of population of rabbits over time look like? When are we drowning in rabbits? Here's a real graph of a real ecological model, why doesn't it look like that? Repeat a few times. By the way this is how compound interest works, and this is how reinvesting stock dividends works....
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Engage your students. Model appropriate behavior, encourage self-driven learning. If you haven't yet, read Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Highly recommended for all leftists, required reading for leftist (or really all) teachers. The single most influential book for my pedagogy, one of the most important books for my ideology.
On a math perspective, I highly recommend reading What is Mathematics, Really? by Hersch. It's a truly enjoyable read.
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I recommend making the left side inversely proportional to the right side
What we've needed to do the whole time was embrace inequality, and we were too blinded by ideology to see it
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Teach folks to think critically
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Organize your workplace, do some mutual aid, the same as any other profession.
Marxism and socialism also has a real scientific and empirical basis, this blog contains some good background, if you ever want to talk about the math of socialism I guess. Cybersyn was pretty cool.
After I dropped out of high school, I lived with a guy for four years who was a pure of a mathematician as you're ever going to find. Real "beautiful mind" type of stuff going on with this guy. He was eventually diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder, but in all that time he has been a tutor and a best friend to me for 25 years now, so I'm just going to say that the best thing you can do for the left is to keep on teaching math. Number theory cracked my mind open in a way that LSD never did. It should be part of the curriculum in any society I want to build.
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Only give examples in bolts of linen
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