Mathematics for Social Justice : Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karaali, Gizem.

Contributor:

Khadjavi, Lily S.

Series:

Classroom Resource Materials

Classroom Resource Materials ; v.66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Social aspects--United States.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher)--Social aspects--United States.

Sociology--Statistical methods.

Sociology.

Political statistics.

Quantitative research--United States.

Quantitative research.

Social justice and education--United States.

Social justice and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Other Title:

Mathematics for Social Justice

Place of Publication:

Providence : American Mathematical Society, 2021.

Summary:

Mathematics for Social Justice: Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics offers a collection of resources for mathematics faculty interested in incorporating questions of social justice into their classrooms. The book comprises seventeen classroom-tested modules featuring ready-to-use activities and investigations for college mathematics and statistics courses. The modules empower students to study issues of social justice and to see the power and limitations of mathematics in real-world contexts of deep concern. The primary focus is on classroom activities where students can ask their own questions, find and analyze real data, apply mathematical ideas themselves, and draw their own conclusions. Module topics in the book focus on technical content that could support courses in quantitative reasoning or introductory statistics. Social themes include electoral issues, environmental justice, equity/inequity, human rights, and racial justice, including topics such as gentrification, partisan gerrymandering, policing, and more.The volume editors are leaders of the national movement to include social justice material in mathematics teaching and jointly edited the earlier AMS-MAA volume, Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom. Gizem Karaali is Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. She is a past chair of the Special Interest Group of the MAA on Quantitative Literacy (SIGMAA-QL). She is one of the founding editors of The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, senior editor of Numeracy, and an associate editor for The Mathematical Intelligencer; she also serves on the editorial board of the MAA's Classroom Resource Materials series. Lily Khadjavi is Professor and Chair of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University and is a past co-chair of the Infinite Possibilities Conference. In 2020 she was appointed by the

California State Attorney General to the Racial and Identity Profiling Act Board, which works with the California Department of Justice. She currently serves on the editorial board of the MAA's Spectrum series and the Human Resources Advisory Committee for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley.

Contents:

Introduction

Understanding over- and underrepresentation via conditional probability / Julie Belock

"I need a job!" : analyzing unemployment rates in college algebra and introductory statistics / Abra Brisbin

A three-part module on poverty / Tricia Muldoon Brown

A gentrification module for quantitative reasoning / Forest Fisher and Jared Warner

Examining human rights issues through the lens of statistics / Maria Mercedes Franco

Normal isn't "normal" when it comes to income / Ted Galanthay and Thomas J. Pfaff

Get the lead out : the connection between lead and crime / Ted Galanthay and Thomas J. Pfaff

Policing and the issue of racial profiling / David Greenberg, Deborah Hughes Hallett, and Lily S. Khadjavi

Measures of income inequality / Andrew J. Miller

Super size me : exploring the nutrition of fast food / Katrina Piatek-Jimenez

Exploring the benefits of recycling / Katrina Piatek-Jimenez

The new Jim Crow : a racial checkup for the United States / Victor Piercey

Who makes the minimum wage? / Ksenija Simic-Muller

Mandatory drug tests for recipients of public assistance : mathematical interpretations and implications / Jeff Suzuki

The limits of partisan gerrymandering / Jeff Suzuki

Forecasting the past : teaching regressions / Zeynep Teymuroglu and Julian C. Chambliss

Partisan politics and central tendencies / Unislawa Williams

Mathematics for social justice : continuing the journey / Gizem Karaali and Lily S. Khadjavi.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4704-6574-4