Red Group: Ana Castillo, Linda Nguyen, Michelle Sims
Channel: Teacher Leadership Program, IAS/PCMI
Date: 2018-07-20

Participants will be introduced to the concept of social justice through a relevant mathematical problem involving a current societal issue.  This workshop will outline how social justice can play a part in our math curricula and the importance of exposing our students to these concepts. Participants will examine a generic textbook problem that has been modified to include a social justice issue and discuss strategies of how to modify problems in their current application based  problem set. Participants will then practice integrating social justice issues with mathematical content using a provided list of data resources. Time will be provided for participants to share their work and discuss the strengths and challenges of merging social justice with mathematics into the curriculum.  Laptops or tablets  are required for the problem development portion of this workshop.