Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers

In this expanded and updated edition, more than 50 articles show how to weave social justice issues throughout the mathematics curriculum, as well as how to integrate math into other curricular areas. Rethinking Mathematics offers teaching ideas, lesson plans, and reflections by practitioners and mathematics educators. This is real-world math that helps students analyze social problems as they gain essential academic skills.

This book offers hope and guidance for teachers to enliven and strengthen their math teaching. It will deepen students' understanding of society and help prepare them to be critical, active participants in a democracy. Blending theory and practice, this is the only resource of its kind.

Author: Eric Gutstein

Publisher: Rethinking Schools

Released Date: 2013

ISBN: 9780942961553