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Rethinking Mathematics

Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers

Edited by Eric Gutstein and Bob Peterson

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This unique collection of more than 30 articles shows teachers how to weave social-justice principles throughout the math curriculum, and how to integrate social-justice math into other curricular areas as well.

Rethinking Mathematics presents teaching ideas, lesson plans and reflections by practicing classroom teachers and distinguished mathematics educators.

This is real-world math — math that helps students analyze problems as they gain essential academic skills.

Rethinking Mathematics will help teachers develop students' understanding of society and prepare them to be critical, active participants in a democracy.

Blending theory and practice, this is the only resource of its kind.

May 2005 • Paperback • 180 pages
ISBN 0-942961-54-4

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"This is an invaluable resource! Rethinking Mathematics has the potential to change the basic ways we think about and teach one of the most important subjects in schools today. With clarity and insight, this book shows how teachers who are dedicated to social justice can act on their commitments in a subject that has, for too long, been seen as simply a technical area."

— Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

"What fun it was to read this book! I found myself reading the daily newspaper and coming up with connections I hadn't imagined before; it's contagious. Here's a bookful of ways to turn numbers into eye-opening experiences, to rediscover the world we live in."

—Deborah Meier, founder of successful public schools in New York and Boston and author of The Power of Their Ideas

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