A Seat at the Table: Equity and Social Justice in Mathematics Education

摘要

As mathematics educators, we often pride ourselves in our ability to communicate the joy and beauty of mathematics to our students. To watch a student's face light up over a clever proof or robust statistical model still gives me goose bumps. And it's often those students-the ones that are bright eyed and eager-that I invite to the metaphorical mathematical table: sending them REU announcements, financial analyst summer opportunities, or graduate school suggestions. Over time, I realized that I wasn't allowing my students to engage in mathematics in ways that were meaningful to them. Although well intentioned, my classrooms were far from "mathematically inclusive."