Rethinking mathematics
Subtitle: teaching social justice by the numbers
By: edited by Eric Gutstein and Bob Peterson.
Contributors: Gutstein, Eric.; Peterson, Bob.
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Milwaukee, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780942961546
Subjects: Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc; Mathematics -- Study and teaching; Social justice -- Study and teaching; Social change -- United States; Economics -- Study and teaching
Genres: Problems, exercises, etc.
Other titles: Teaching social justice by the numbers; Center for Educational Pluralism Collection.
Notes: On cover: "A Rethinking Schools publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Available at the Center for Educational Pluralism, located in Miller Hall 250.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Viewing math broadly. Teaching math across the curriculum / Bob Peterson ; Reading the world with math / Marilyn Frankenstein ; Race, retrenchment, and the reform of school mathematics / William F. Tate ; Historical, cultural, and social implications of mathematics / S.E. Anderson; title: pt. 2. Infusing social justice into math classes. "Home buying while brown or black" / Eric Gutstein ; Sweatshop accounting / Larry Steele ; Chicanos have math in their blood / Luis Ortiz-Franco ; Understanding large numbers / Bob Peterson ; "With math, it's like you have more defense" / Erin E. Turner and Beatriz T. Font Strawhun ; Radical equations : a review of the book by Bob Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr. / David Levine ; The geometry of inequality / Andrew Brantlinger ; Integrals and equity / Megan Staples ; Math, maps, and misrepresentation / Eric Gutstein ; Multicultural math / Claudia Zaslavsky; title: pt. 3. Infusing social justice math into other curricular areas. Ten chairs of inequality / Polly Kellogg ; Write the truth : presidents and slaves / Bob Peterson ; The transnational capital auction / Bill Bigelow; title: pt. 4. Resources for rethinking mathematics. Websites, math curriculum and pedagogy, books with theoretical/academic perspectives, curriculum guides/resources, children's books, sources for maps, and more.