At a time of rapid demographic change and amidst the many educational challenges facing the US, this critical new collection presents mathematics education from a culturally responsive perspective. It tackles the most crucial issues of teaching mathematics to an ethnically diverse school population, including the political dimension of mathematics education within the context of governmental efforts to improve achievement in school mathematics. Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education moves beyond a point of view that is internal to mathematics education as a discipline, and instead offers a broad perspective of mathematics as a significant, liberating intellectual force in our society. The editors of this volume bring together contributions from many of the leading teachers, teacher educators, researchers, scholars, and activists who have been working to reorient mathematics education in ways that reflect mathematics education as accomplished, first and foremost, through human interactions.
Author(s): Brian Greer, Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Arthur B. Powell, Sharon Nelson-barber
Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 400
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
I Foundations and Backgrounds......Page 24
1 Culture and the Development of Mathematics: An Historical Perspective......Page 26
2 New Philosophy of Mathematics: Implications for Mathematics Education......Page 58
3 An Ethnomathematical Perspective on Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education......Page 80
4 Seeing With Many Eyes: Connections Between Anthropology and Mathematics......Page 100
5 What Mathematics Teachers Need to Know about Culture and Language......Page 126
6 The Politics of Mathematics Education in the United States: Dominant and Counter Agendas......Page 152
7 Conceptions of Assessment of Mathematical Proficiency and their Implications for Cultural Diversity......Page 180
II Teaching and Learning......Page 202
8 Preparing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teachers......Page 204
9 Mathematics Literacy and Liberation: Reframing Mathematics Education for African-American Children......Page 222
10 Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education in the Algebra Project......Page 254
11 A Two-Way Process for Developing Effective Culturally Based Math: Examples from Math in a Cultural Context......Page 272
12 Native-American Analogues to the Cartesian Coordinate System......Page 296
13 Privileging Mathematics and Equity in Teacher Education: Framework, Counter-Resistance Strategies, and Reflections from a Latina Mathematics Educator......Page 310
14 Latina Mothers’ Perceptions about the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: Implications for Parental Participation......Page 336
15 Culturally Responsive College Level Mathematics......Page 360
Index......Page 388
