Changing the game while playing the game: teaching social justice Mathematics
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Burbach, Jessica.
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In this paper, I will share my goals as a social justice mathematics teacher, which include to deconstruct mathematics, to connect mathematics to students’ lives, to honor multiple approaches to thinking mathematically, and to encourage student leadership of the learning in the classroom. I will describe and reflect on a social justice unit I designed and taught, which explores whether police traffic stop data is proportionate to racial demographic data. By critiquing my social justice unit, I will offer ideas for improving students’ understanding of proportionality and for empowering students to see themselves as agents of change. Finally, I will argue that a social justice mathematics curriculum gives students from traditionally marginalized communities greater access to mathematical literacy, while developing their social consciousness and agency.
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2015
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Comprensión | Discurso | Formativo | Gestión de aula | Proporcionalidad | Teoría social del aprendizaje
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Idioma
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Proceedings of the eighth international mathematics education and society conference (volumen 2)
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Greer, Brian y Mukhopadhyay, Swapna
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383 - 397
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