A furor over slavery has erupted at a Midtown elementary school after a teacher handed out math homework that included questions asking kids to tally the killing and beating of slaves.
The shocking arithmetic assignment — called "Slavery Word Problems" — was given to at least one class of 9-year-olds at PS 59.
It included questions such as, "One slave got whipped five times a day. How many times did he get whipped in a month (31 days)?"
The inflammatory homework was uncovered by a student teacher who refused to hand it out.
"I looked at the questions and was like, 'Wow! This is kind of inappropriate,' " said the student teacher, Aziza Harding. "Even if you look at the wording of it . . . these questions seem desensitized from the violence that's in these questions."
Education officials said the trouble arose from a clumsy attempt by teacher Jane Youn to meld a history lesson on slavery with an assignment in math.
She asked the students to create their own questions and distributed them as homework last month, officials said.
The question on how many times a slave would be whipped in a month had a second part that read, "Another slave got whipped nine times a day. How many times did he get whipped in a month?"
Other questions on the "slave math" test ask students to figure out how many tobacco leaves "Henry B. Brown" can twist in one day and how many bricks slaves used to build the White House.
The same work sheet was nearly assigned to teacher Jacqueline Vitucci's class when she went on vacation this month. But Harding put the kibosh on it.
"I just found it alarming that this would happen in a state that you would think was more liberal," she told The Post. "I found it interesting that a teacher born and raised here would find it acceptable."
The Department of Education agreed.
"This is obviously unacceptable and we will take appropriate disciplinary action," said a department spokeswoman.
A message left at a phone number listed for Youn was not returned.
In a strikingly similar case, third-graders at a school in Norcross, Ga., last year were given homework that asked them to calculate how many times slaves were beaten.
yoav.gonen@nypost.com
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