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Social Justice in the Math Classroom
Math, Equity | K-12
Often, we think of social justice topics as belonging most naturally in an ELA or social studies classroom. After all, don’t numbers and math formulas work the same regardless of your background or circumstances? However, when done correctly, discussions about social justice issues can actually contribute to a more authentic and relevant learning experience in mathematics.
In this course, you’ll learn how to implement social justice in the math classroom, with concrete strategies and activities spanning from early childhood to high school. You’ll examine how implicit bias has impacted education, particularly mathematics. In addition, you’ll see how to incorporate real-world topics in social justice into your math lessons, as well as introducing students to diverse trailblazers in the field.
Using the strategies from this course, you’ll be able to create a more academically, culturally, and socially sound environment for teaching and learning mathematics.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Practices for using a social justice lens in your math program and classroom
- Models for leveraging common mathematical problem-solving to incorporate concepts of social justice
- Strategies for integrating social justice discussions into your math classroom
- Considerations for discussing and improving equitable math outcomes
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Appraise the impact of implicit bias in mathematics curriculum, teaching, and learning by evaluating historical and contemporary movements in math education.
- Examine approaches to math curriculum and instruction through a social justice lens.
- Propose ways to improve math instruction using a social justice approach.
- Examine guidelines for integrating social justice topics into the math classroom respectfully.
- Evaluate instructional models to integrate diversity and social justice into the math classroom.
- Outline plans for long-term work with social justice to improve engagement and equity in the math classroom.
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