Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice de Basil M. Conway

Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice: Corwin Mathematics Series

Basil M. Conway

Lateefah Id-Deen

Mary Candace Raygoza

Amanda Ruiz

John W Staley

Eva Thanheiser

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2022

"If you teach middle school math and have wanted to promote social justice, but haven¿t been sure how to get started, you need to check out this book. It incorporates lessons you can use immediately as well as how to foster the kind of classroom community where students will thrive. It¿s the kind of book yoüll want to have alongside you to support you throughout your journey."

Robert Kaplinsky
Author and Consultant
Long Beach, CA

Empower young adolescents to be the change¿join the teaching mathematics for social justice movement!

Students of all ages and intersecting identities¿through media and their lived experiences¿ bear witness to and experience social injustices and movements around the world for greater justice. However, when people think of social justice, mathematics rarely comes to mind. With a user-friendly design, this book brings middle school mathematics content to life by connecting it to issues students see or experience.

Developed for use by Grades 6-8 educators, the contributed model lessons in this book walk teachers through the process of applying critical frameworks to instruction, using standards-based mathematics to explore, understand, and respond to social injustices. Learn to plan daily instruction that engages young adolescents in mathematics explorations through age-appropriate, culturally relevant topics such as health and economic inequality, human and civil rights, environmental justice, and accessibility. Features include:

Content cross-referenced by mathematical concept and social issues
Connection to Learning for Justice¿s social justice standards
Downloadable teacher materials and lesson resources
Guidance for lessons driven by young adolescents¿ unique passions and challenges
Connections between research and practice

Written for teachers committed to developing equitable and empowering practices through the lens of mathematics content and practice standards as well as social justice standards, this book will help connect content to young adolescents¿ daily lives, strengthen their mathematical understanding, and expose them to issues that will support them in becoming active agents of change and responsible leaders.

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A wonderful collection of lessons, submitted by teachers, to help students of all ages see topics they care about, and use mathematics as a tool for progress in the world.
Conway et al. have done it again! In this volume, not only do the authors share rich, standards- based, grade-level appropriate mathematical tasks with social justice contexts, they also share specific strategies and tools to engage the middle school mathematics student.
Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice is a must-have resource for any middle school educator seeking to incorporate teaching mathematics for social justice in their educational environment. This book provides practical lessons that will truly enhance a child’s educational experience through engaging them in relevant applications of mathematics.
If you teach middle school mathematics and have wanted to promote social justice but haven’t been sure how to get started, you need to check out this book. It incorporates lessons you can use immediately as well as how to foster the kind of classroom community where students will thrive. It’s the kind of book you’ll want to have alongside you to support you throughout your journey.
Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice is an outstanding addition to the growing number of texts and projects that weave the teaching of mathematics and social justice together. The authors go deep and broad to show how, why, and when this combination of curricular topics improves our students’ mathematical understandings while honing their abilities and dispositions to promote social and environmental justice in their own lives and communities.
A very compelling set of fresh ideas are offered that prepare educators to turn the corner on advocating for social justice in the mathematics classroom. Each book is full of engaging activities, frameworks, and standards that center instruction on community, worldview, and the developmental needs of all students—a much-needed resource to reboot our commitment to the next generation.
I imagine many people will purchase this book for the sample lesson plans. And you should; they’re fabulous. But just as fabulous, and equally important, is the framework the authors lay out for a comprehensive, holistic, transformative approach to mathematics teaching, with social justice at its core.
As a teacher educator for social justice, I am familiar with the near-constant refrain of “this isn’t something you can do in math!” This book illustrates just the opposite. Indeed, not only is it possible to engage in social justice mathematics, but it is an educational imperative to do so. This much-needed and valuable collection provides practitioners with clear and compelling lessons that are grounded in theories of justice and equity. Especially timely in this text is the clear evidence that not only can middle school young adolescents engage in critical conversations, problem solving, and sociocultural analysis in their mathematics classes, but they must. The editors and contributors to this volume have curated a powerful resource that is a must-read for all mathematics educators and those who care about social justice teaching and learning.
Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice is a book written for the teacher of mathematics. This diverse group of authors and educators provides everything a teacher needs to transform their practice from critical theory to teachable lesson plans! A must-read for educators who seek to transform mathematics back to its humanistic roots.

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Preface
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
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
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
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
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

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Basil Conway IV is an associate professor of mathematics education in the College of Education and Health Professions at Columbus State University and serves as the mathematics education graduate programs director. He serves on numerous doctoral committees as both a chair and methodologist. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD. in mathematics education from Auburn University in 2005, 2012, and 2015, respectively. He also completed his MS in statistical science at Colorado State University in 2010.

Basil previously spent 10 years teaching in public middle and high schools before he became a teacher educator. During this time, he also worked as an instructor at a local junior college. Over the past 17 years of service in teaching mathematics and future teachers of mathematics, he has served in various local mathematics education leadership positions and organizations including Transforming East Alabama Mathematics (TEAM-Math), Auburn University¿s Teacher Leader Academy, East Alabama Council for Teachers of Mathematics, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, National Mathematics and Science Initiative, and A+ College Ready. He has published works related to teaching mathematics for social justice in numerous books and journals and has a special interest in statistics education.

Basil¿s lens for teaching and student learning draws heavily from Vygotsky¿s theory of social constructivism in which language and culture play essential roles in human intellectual development. Thus, he believes the co-construction of knowledge is paramount in the development of students¿ social, religious, and mathematical identities. He believes teachers, parents, other students, cultural norms, and other cultural communicative devices play a critical role in shaping students¿ knowledge of themselves, faith, and mathematics.

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