Math instructor is slammed for sporting feather headdress and performing Native American dance to show children a simple strategy to memorize trigonometry phrases

  • Footage of John W North Excessive College math instructor Candice Reed donning feathered headgear whereas chanting ‘SOH CAH TOA’ has gone viral
  • The video was shared on Wednesday by Shadae Johnson, a member of the City Indigenous Peoples Advisory Council Member in Vancouver 
  • Johnson stated the coed began recording as a result of he ‘felt that violence was being dedicated towards him and he had the correct to report’ 
  • Reed is filmed doing the ‘tomahawk chop’ whereas chanting the mathematics mnemonic within the entrance of the classroom
  • Reed was additionally filmed leaping on a desk within the classroom whereas a scholar hangs his head in embarrassment and different college students have a look at one another awkwardly
  • Johnson stated she hopes Reed faces accountability for her actions and included the contact data for varsity officers in her publish 
  •  In response to the clip somebody tweeted: ‘As an educator, there’s NO WAY that there’s a justifiable motive for that’










A California math instructor is beneath fireplace after she was filmed donning a feather headdress and doing a weird ‘Native American’ dance for her college students. 

Footage of John W North Excessive College math instructor Candice Reed donning feathered headgear whereas chanting ‘SOH CAH TOA’ -a mnemonic for remembering the definitions of the trigonometric capabilities sine, cosine, and tangent- has gone viral.  

The video was posted to Fb on Wednesday by Shadae Johnson, a member of the City Indigenous Peoples Advisory Council Member in Vancouver.

Johnson stated the footage was filmed on Tuesday by a Native American scholar in Reed’s math class. 

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Footage of John W North High School math teacher Candice Reed donning feathered headgear while chanting 'SOH CAH TOA' has gone viral

Footage of John W North Excessive College math instructor Candice Reed donning feathered headgear whereas chanting ‘SOH CAH TOA’ has gone viral

Another clip shows Reed on top of her desk, legs crossed and arms outstretched praying 'please tell me the secret Indian (illegible) but they don't hear'

One other clip reveals Reed on prime of her desk, legs crossed and arms outstretched praying ‘please inform me the key Indian (illegible) however they do not hear’

In response to Johnson, the coed began recording after a number of minute’s of Reed ‘battle hooping and tomahawk chopping’ as a result of he ‘felt that violence was being dedicated towards him and he had the correct to report.’

It seems that Reed was utilizing the dance to show the scholars the trigonometric capabilities, which assist resolve virtually any drawback associated to discovering both a facet size or angle measure of a proper triangle.

Johnson hooked up footage of Reed doing the ‘tomahawk chop’ whereas chanting the mathematics mnemonic within the entrance of the classroom.  

At one level Reed simply screeches it whereas leaping up and down whereas waving her arms after which dramatically runs out of breath and rests her head on a wall. 

A projection of a stick determine with a feather headdress surrounded by two teepees will be seen on the white board behind her.  

In one other recording of the lesson plan, Reed was captured leaping on a desk behind the classroom whereas a scholar hangs his head in embarrassment and different college students have a look at one another awkwardly, clearly uncomfortable and confused at her conduct. 

Reed was even filmed jumping on a desk in the classroom while a student hangs his head in embarrassment

Reed was even filmed leaping on a desk within the classroom whereas a scholar hangs his head in embarrassment

After jumping off the desk she continues to shriek 'SOH CAH TOA' while hopping and running in an exaggerated manner

After leaping off the desk she continues to shriek ‘SOH CAH TOA’ whereas hopping and working in an exaggerated method

 What’s SOH CAH TOA?

‘SOHCAHTOA’ is a useful mnemonic for remembering the definitions of the trigonometric capabilities.

Sine equals reverse over hypotenuse, cosine equals adjoining over hypotenuse, and tangent equals reverse over adjoining.

SOH: Sin(θ) = Reverse / Hypotenuse CAH: Cos(θ) = Adjoining / Hypotenuse TOA: Tan(θ) = Reverse / Adjoining

With these properties, you may resolve virtually any drawback associated to discovering both a facet size or angle measure of a proper triangle.

After leaping off the desk she continues to shriek ‘SOH CAH TOA’ whereas hopping and working in an exaggerated method to a silent classroom. 

One other clip reveals her on prime of her desk, legs crossed and arms outstretched praying ‘please inform me the key Indian (illegible) however they do not hear’ she then snickers, including ‘as a result of clearly that is ridiculous.’

She is then recorded going to the nook of the classroom and saying she ‘bumped into the rock god’ whereas college students will be heard groaning ‘oh my god’ 

Reed, clearly amused along with her efficiency, laughs to herself as she lays the rocks out on her desk. 

Johnson stated she hopes Reed is held accountable for her actions and included contact data for varsity officers in her publish. 

‘I’m sharing this video as a result of these behaviours can now not be swept beneath the rug!’ she wrote. 

‘We have to finish discrimination and violence towards indigenous youth in faculties! We’re not within the Nineteen Sixties any extra, she ought to know higher!’ Johnson added. 

In response to a Twitter consumer who extensively shared the video, Reed has been doing this lesson plan since not less than 2012.

DailyMail.com has reached out to highschool directors for remark.  

The clip has brought on outrage on-line, with many questioning what potential academic function Reed’s routine may have served for the scholars.

One particular person tweeted: ‘The worst factor is the instructor in all probability did not even assume this was disrespectful or offensive. Fully oblivious as the children watch, aghast and alarmed. Oblivious, as she grew up in a cultural bubble.’  

‘That is from Riverside, CA? I am from there and Native from the Cahuilla Band of Indians,’ one other particular person tweeted. ‘How is that this occurring when there are actually not less than 10 Native tribes within the surrounding space. UCR (College of Ca Riverside) works with Natives within the are and he or she did not know??? Expressionless face.’  

Another person tweeted: ‘As an educator, there’s NO WAY that there’s a justifiable motive for that.’

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