Rethinking mathematics : teaching social justice by the numbers /
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| Language: | English |
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Milwaukee, WI :
Rethinking Schools, Ltd.,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one : viewing math broadly
- Teaching math across the curriculum
- Reading the world with math
- Race, retrenchment, and the reform of school mathematics
- Historical, cultural, and social implications of mathematics ; Part two : infusing social justice into math classes
- "Home buying while brown or black"
- Sweatshop accounting
- Chicanos have math in their blood
- Understanding large numbers
- "With math, it's like you have more defense"
- Radical equations : a review of the book by Bob Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- The geometry of inequality
- Integrals and equity
- Math, maps, and misrepresentation
- Multicultural math ; Part three : infusing social justice math into other curricular areas
- Ten chairs of inequality
- Write the truth : presidents and slaves
- The transnational capital auction ; Part four: resources for rethinking mathematics
- Websites, math curriculum and pedagogy, books with theoretical/academic perspectives, curriculum guides/resources, children's books, sources for maps, and more.