Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics

<p>Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether schools use either basic-skills curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for low-skilled service jobs or standards-based curricula to ready students for knowledge-intensive positions. And working for fundamental social change and rectifying injustice are rarely included in any mathematics curriculum. <em>Reading and Writing the World with</em><em>Mathematics</em> argues that mathematics education should prepare students to investigate and critique injustice and to challenge in words and actions oppressive structures and acts. Based on teacher-research the book provides a theoretical framework and practical examples for how mathematics educators can connect schooling to a larger sociopolitical context and concretely teach mathematics for social justice.</p>