Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice (eBook)

Basil M. Conway, Lateefah Id-Deen, Mary Candace Raygoza, Amanda Ruiz, John W Staley, Eva Thanheiser (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2022
Corwin (Verlag)
978-1-0718-8162-0 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is Social Justice and Why Does It Matter in Teaching Mathematics?
Chapter 2: Building and Sustaining a Beloved Community in the Middle School Mathematics Classroom
Chapter 3: Fostering a Classroom to Teach Mathematics for Social Justice
Chapter 4: Instructional Tools for the Social Justice Mathematics Lesson
Chapter 5: Teaching the Social Justice Mathematics Lesson
Chapter 6: The Number System
Lesson 6.1 Food Apartheid: Graphing and Understanding Access to Healthy Food
Lesson 6.2 Cor(o)ner Stores and Food Apartheid
Lesson 6.3 Billionaire Power
Lesson 6.4 Middle School Math to Explore People Represented in Our World and Community
Chapter 7: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Lesson 7.1 Hey Google, Who′s a Mathematician
Lesson 7.2 The True Cost of that $29 T-shirt in the Store Window
Lesson 7.3 Majority and Power
Lesson 7.4 Smoking and Vaping: Targeting of Marginalized Communities by the Tobacco Industry
Lesson 7.5 Health Race and Ratios
Lesson 7.6 Health Inequalities: COVID and Other Health Conditions
Chapter 8: Algebra: Expressions, Equations, and Functions
Lesson 8.1 Gerrymandering of Voting Districts
Lesson 8.2 National Team Pay Investigation
Lesson 8.3 The Black Vote in America: Impact of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Chapter 9: Statistics and Probability
Lesson 9.1 Playing with Data
Lesson 9.2 The Mathematics of Toxic Air
Lesson 9.3 Gender Pay Gap
Lesson 9.4 How Many Meals Can Minimum Wage Buy
Chapter 10: Geometry
Lesson 10.1 Map Projections
Lesson 10.2 3D Modeling for Water
Lesson 10.3 Water is Life
Lesson 10.4 Accessible Playground
Lesson 10.5 Investigating Areas to Determine Fairness
Chapter 11: Advice From the Field
Chapter 12: Creating Social Justice Mathematics Lessons for Your Own Classroom
Appendix A: Additional Resources
Appendix B: Lesson Resources
Appendix C: Essential Middle Grades Concepts
Appendix D: Social Justice Topics, Standards, and Grade Level Outcomes
Appendix E: Lessons by Essential Middle Grades Concepts, Social Justice Grades 6–8 Outcomes, and Social Justice Topics
Appendix F: Social Justice Mathematics Lesson Planner
References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Corwin Mathematics Series
• Reihe/Serie: Corwin Mathematics Series
• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Lernen / Lernspiele
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• Schlagworte: Culturally Responsive Teaching • current events in mathematics • Diversity • equity in mathematics • Fairness • Food insecurity • grade 6-8 math lessons • Justice • Learning for Justice • Math • mathematics process standards • social justice in middle school math • social justice mathematics • social justice standard • teaching tolerance
• ISBN-10: 1-0718-8162-0 / 1071881620
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0718-8162-0 / 9781071881620