Whose Community Is This?
Students use advanced math to study gentrification, displacement, and foreclosure in their neighborhood.
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Plotting Inequalities, Building Resistance
Media depictions of San Francisco show idyllic images of fog pouring under the Golden Gate Bridge or happy tourists riding cable cars, but rarely the mostly nonwhite neighborhoods of the […]
A Social Justice Data Fair
Math is at the center of student-generated projects on environmental, social, and political themes.
Underfunded Schools Cut Past Tense from Language Programs
A part of American school curricula for more than 200 years
TV Selfishness and Violence Explode During ‘War On Terror
Six years into the ‘War on Terror
Living Algebra, Living Wage
Eighth graders finally get what they ask for: an algebra lesson for the real world.”
The War in Iraq and Daily Classroom Life
Suggestions from a 5th-grade teacher on bringing the War in Iraq into the curriculum.
Integrals and Equity
An AP calculus class at a prestigious boarding school doesn’t seem a likely venue for student reflection on privilege and wealth. But when I taught a group of academically inclined […]
Macaroni Social Justice
A 3rd-grade teacher uses thousands of pieces of macaroni to facilitate a lesson about fractions and to spur classroom conversations about wealth inequality.
Solar Power Comes to Math Class
A math educator brings data from a friend’s solar panels — and the story to win them in their community — into her 7th-grade classroom to build a bridge between math and climate justice education.
“Do You Have Batman Shoulders?”
A math teacher uses Barbies and action figures to teach proportional reasoning and other skills — and to help students think about society’s expectations of our shapes and sizes.
Rethinking Mathematics – Second Edition
In this expanded and updated edition of Rethinking Mathematics, more than 50 articles show how to weave social justice issues throughout the mathematics curriculum, as well as how to integrate […]