Rethinking mathematics : teaching social justice by the numbers / edited by Eric (Rico) Gutstein and Bob Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ERIC (RICO) GUTSTEIN.

Contributor:

Gutstein, Eric, editor.

Peterson, Bob, 1953- editor.

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching--Social aspects--United States.

Mathematics.

Social justice--Study and teaching--United States.

Social justice.

Social justice--Study and teaching.

Mathematics--Study and teaching--Social aspects.

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

United States.

Social change--United States.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Rethinking Schools, [2013]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2013]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1: Viewing math broadly. 1. Teaching math across the curriculum / Bob Peterson ; Teaching suggestions : disparities in wealth cartoon ; Activity box: No-TV week math ; Driving while black or brown : a math project about racial profiling / Eric (Rico) Gutstein

2. Historical, cultural, and social implications of mathematics / S.E. Anderson

3. "I thought this U.S. place was supposed to be about freedom" / Maura Varley Gutiâerrez

4. Rethinking mathematics and its intersection with race : interview with Danny Martin / Eric (Rico) Gutstein

5. Reading the world with math / Marilyn Frankenstein ; Teaching suggestions : the war in Iraq, the Boondocks cartoon ; Activity box: Using math to take a critical look at how the unemployment rate is determined / Marilyn Frankenstein ; The war in Iraq : how much does it cost? / Bob Peterson

6. Race, retrenchment, and the reform of school mathematics / William F. Tate ; Environmental hazards : is environmental racism real? / Larry Miller

7. Adventures of a beginning teacher with social justice mathematics / Liz Trexler

Part 2: Infusing social justice into math classes. 8. "Home buying while brown or black" / Eric (Rico) Gutstein ; Teaching suggestions: Corporate control of U.S. media line graph ; Teaching suggestions: "And how do you spend your wages?" Cartoon

9. Living algebra, living wage / Jana Dean ; Teaching suggestions: The dependent variable ; Teaching suggestions: The Y-intercept ; "I can't survive on $8.25" : using math to investigate minimum wage, CEO pay, and more / Eric (Rico) Gutstein

10. Sweatshop accounting / Larry Steele ; Activity box: How do you live on 31 cents an hour? ; Teaching suggestions: The global capitalist economy cartoon ; Globalization, labor, and the environment : a linear programming unit / Indigo Esmonde and Jessica Quindel ; Poverty and world wealth : recognizing inequality / Susan Hersh and Bob Peterson ; Unequal distribution of U.S. wealth : recognizing inequality, part two / Michael Langyel

11. Chicanos have math in their blood / Luis Ortiz-Franco ; Activity box: The hidden grain in meat / Stephanie Kempf

12. Whose community is this? : understanding the mathematics of neighborhood displacement / Eric (Rico) Gutstein

13. Understanding large numbers / Bob Peterson ; Activity box: How many Willis Towers tall Is $135 billion? / Eric (Rico) Gutstein

14. When equal isn't fair / Julia M. Aguirre and Maria del Rosario Zavala

15. Racism and stop and frisk / Kathryn Himmelstein

16. "With math, it's like you have more defense" / Erin E. Turner and Beatriz T. Font Strawhun ; Designing a wheelchair ramp : putting the Pythagorean theorem to use / Adam Renner

17. "That smell is from the sugar cane fire!" / Raquel Milani and Michela Tuchapesk da Silva

18. What's a good school? / Michelle Allman and Almanzia Opeyo

19. Radical equations: a review of the book by Bob Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr. / David Levine

20. Teaching percent change + social justice = opportunity for deep mathematical discussion / Flannery Denny

21. The square root of a fair share / Jana Dean

22. The geometry of inequality / Andrew Brantlinger ; South Central Los Angeles : ratios, density, and geometry in urban areas / Eric (Rico) Gutstein

23. Plotting inequality, building resistance / Adam Renner, Bridget Brew, and Crystal Proctor

24. Integrals and equity / Megan Staples ; HIV/AIDS status : using statistics to understand ratios / Sage Forbes-Gray ; Teaching suggestions: HIV status bus stop photo ; Justice for janitors : rich lessons in the power of math / Bob Peterson

25. Math, maps, and misrepresentation / Eric (Rico) Gutstein ; Teaching suggestions: Map of territory that Mexico lost to the United States ; Real-world projects: Seeing math all around us ; Teaching suggestions: Do you support invading Iraq? cartoon ; Deconstructing Barbie : math and popular culture / Swapna Mukhopadhyay

26. Multicultural math / Claudia Zaslavsky ; Tracking PA announcements : collecting data in the classroom / Robert M. Berkman

Part 3: Infusing social justice math into other curricular areas. 27. Ten chairs of inequality / Polly Kellogg ; Fast foods, junk foods, and advertising : analyzing the barrage of advertising aimed at children / Bob Peterson

28. Transparency of water / Selene Gonzalez-Carillo and Martha Merson

29. Write the truth : presidents and slaves / Bob Peterson ; Teaching suggestions: "Eight companies earn more" one-dollar bill graphic ; Libraries, books, and bias : using math to raise issues of representation / Bob Peterson ; The mathematics of lotteries : going beyond probability / Laurie Rubel

30. Rethinking and connecting algebra to real-world issues / Sandra Kingan

31. A social justice data fair / Beth Alexander and Michelle Munk

32. The transnational capital auction / Bill Bigelow ; Sweatshop math : taking a closer look at where kids' "stuff" comes from / Bob Peterson ; Teaching suggestions: "Work faster!" cartoon

Part 4: 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

"A Rethinking Schools Publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780942961560

0942961560

Publisher Number:

99988271911

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.