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A Critical Introduction to Mathematics Education: Human Diversity and Equitable Instruction book cover

2nd Edition

A Critical Introduction to Mathematics Education Human Diversity and Equitable Instruction

By Mark Wolfmeyer Copyright 2023
156 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The second edition of Mark Wolfmeyer’s award-winning primer offers future and current math teachers an introduction to the connections that exist between mathematics and a critical orientation to education, one that accounts for race, social class, gender, sexuality, language diversity, and ability. Expanded and updated from the first edition, this book demonstrates how elements of human... Read more

1. What is mathematics? Answers from mathematicians, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists  2. Reform mathematics teaching: The student-centered approach  3. Why identity, human diversity, and intersectional identities matter to mathematics education  4. A white institutional space: Race and mathematics education  5. Social class hierarchies and mathematics education: To reproduce or interrupt?  6. Gender trouble: Rationalism vs. masculinity in mathematics education  7. LGBTQ+ work: Outing mathematics for heteronormativity and homophobia  8. Dissolving ability binaries in mathematics education: From special education law to disability studies  9. Language diversity as an asset: Emergent bilinguals in the mathematics classroom  10. Putting it all together: Intersectionality revisited, current mathematics education policy, and further avenues for exploration

Biography

Mark Wolfmeyer is an associate professor in the College of Education at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.

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