Social Justice Mathematics for Engagement and Empowerment C
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Social Justice Mathematics for Engagement and Empowerment C. Billy Campbell Transformative Mathematics Specialist Pueblo High School - TUSD Master’s Student -Teaching and Teacher Education, U of A Owner & Consultant – Mathematical Anarchy, LLC
Collaborative Norms • Everyone Contributes. • Nobody is done until everyone understands. • Helping doesn’t mean giving answers. • Find many ways of showing your thinking. • Group questions only.
Purpose • Disrupt Status Quo • Create space for critical analysis of issues of social justice, environmental justice, etc. • Develop Critical Consciousness • Develop Critical Literacy/Numeracy • Reading/Writing the World with Mathematics Goals • Humanize Students • Motivate students • Empower Students
“ To use mathematics to understand relations of power, resource inequities, and disparate opportunities between different social groups and to understand explicit discrimination based on race, class, gender, language, and other differences. Further, it means to dissect and deconstruct media and other forms of representation. It means to use mathematics to examine these various phenomena both in one’s immediate life and in the broader social world and to identify relationships and make connections between them. Reading the World with Mathematics Rico Gutstein ”
“ Writing the world with mathematics means using mathematics to change the world. Writing the World with Mathematics Rico Gutstein (2005) ”
Depth of Implementation Level I - Examples/Simple Problems Level II - Activities and Tasks Level III – Projects and YPAR It’s all about the discourse.
WMD’s Weapons of Math Disruption • Funds of Knowledge • Problem Posing Pedagogy • Learner Generated Curriculum • Authentic Caring • Authentic Self • Complex Instruction
Obstacles • Teacher Autonomy • Curricula • Support • Push Back • Others?
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