1st Edition
Teaching Secondary Mathematics as if the Planet Matters
Section 1. A Critical Stance on Global Issues 1. The Role of Mathematics in Shaping our World 2. The Ecomony 3. Climate Change 4. Food 5. Biodiversity 6. Towards a Mathematics for Human Rights and Social Justice Section 2. Into the Classroom as if the Planet Matters 7. Critical Mathematics Education – from theory to practice 8. Starting from Statistics 9. Starting from Algebra 10. Starting from Number 11. Starting from Geometry 12. Starting from Probability
Biography
Alf Coles is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Bristol, UK.
Richard Barwell is Professor of Education at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Tony Cotton, now retired, was Associate Dean of the Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
Jan Winter, now retired, was Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Bristol, UK.
Laurinda Brown is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Bristol, UK.
"This book should inspire authors to write about problems that exist in a world with a richness of different examples that allow useful approaches." —Zentralblatt MATH
