Yeah, that’ll help em learn. At least that seems to be the theory of Social Justice Math.

Dedicated to integrating issues of social and economic justice into math instruction with questions like:

Using the data in the following table calculate the average number of monthly casualties in Iraq as if you were a pentagon spokesman. Now use the same data and calculate the average as if you were a member of an anti-war group. Are the numbers different and why.

and a curriculum based around topics such as using the decline of food and water resources to teach about exponents or teaching geometry by mapping the number of liquor stores and toxic waste dumps in a neighborhood. [Oh right that also teaches an important lesson about environmental rascism.] This just has to be the most popular class of the day. If you’re an angst driven teen looking for a reason to commit suicide that is.

For the love of God people how about just teaching math so the kids can graduate and move out of the apparent hell holes they live in.

education , politics

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