Framing kids as “disruptive” or “inattentive” or otherwise having the wrong nature if they feel disengaged. This is after informing them what they’re going to study without consulting what’s relevant or interesting to them, and then using social power to require them to study those things. But the problem is supposedly the student, not the system.
Claiming that they’ll need these math tools later in life, and that this justifies adults pressuring the kids to learn those skills now. (This is more bullshit-flavored than gaslight-flavored, but I think they’re psychological neighbors.)
Pretending that because a word problem touches on a topic kids care about, the math is relevant to what the kids like about that topic.
Insisting that forcing kids to take math classes is for their own good, and if the kids don’t see why or don’t agree, then they should believe the adults over their own sense of things.
It makes me so angry. It’s perfectly antithetical to the essence of math as I see it.
What gaslighting goes on in math class?
A few examples:
Framing kids as “disruptive” or “inattentive” or otherwise having the wrong nature if they feel disengaged. This is after informing them what they’re going to study without consulting what’s relevant or interesting to them, and then using social power to require them to study those things. But the problem is supposedly the student, not the system.
Claiming that they’ll need these math tools later in life, and that this justifies adults pressuring the kids to learn those skills now. (This is more bullshit-flavored than gaslight-flavored, but I think they’re psychological neighbors.)
Pretending that because a word problem touches on a topic kids care about, the math is relevant to what the kids like about that topic.
Insisting that forcing kids to take math classes is for their own good, and if the kids don’t see why or don’t agree, then they should believe the adults over their own sense of things.
It makes me so angry. It’s perfectly antithetical to the essence of math as I see it.
Your examples fit the definition quite well. Apparently this is in the dictionary now. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaslighting