What are some ways in which mathematics teachers
can incorporate social justice themes into their curricula?
There are many different topics in social justice which can be discussed in and experienced in many different situations. Perhaps one of the hardest things for educators to do is to include these issues in their curricula and help shed some light on these topics to their students. How can someone learn about acceptance of all different races in their math class? in their history class? The latter seems much easier to answer because of the direct contact relating the two issues. Advances in the field of civil rights and liberties is much easier seen in a history class but how can mathematics teachers include these powerful messages in their lessons and forms of assessment even? Is it enough to simply make word problems phrased differently to point out social differences? Or is there something more effective which mathematics educators can do to help bring many of these social justice issues into their class room?
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