Mathematics for social justice : resources for the college classroom
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Mathematics for social justice : resources for the college classroom
（Classroom resource materials, volume 60）
MAA Press, c2019
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Description
Mathematics for Social Justice offers a collection of resources for mathematics faculty interested in incorporating questions of social justice into their classrooms. The book begins with a series of essays from instructors experienced in integrating social justice themes into their pedagogy; these essays contain political and pedagogical motivations as well as nuts-and-bolts teaching advice. The heart of the book is a collection of fourteen classroom-tested modules featuring ready-to-use activities and investigations for the college mathematics classroom. The mathematical tools and techniques used are relevant to a wide variety of courses including college algebra, math for the liberal arts, calculus, differential equations, discrete mathematics, geometry, financial mathematics, and combinatorics. The social justice themes include human trafficking, income inequality, environmental justice, gerrymandering, voting methods, and access to education.
The volume editors are leaders of the national movement to include social justice material into mathematics teaching. Gizem Karaali is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. She is one of the founding editors of The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and an associate editor for The Mathematical Intelligencer and Numeracy; she also serves on the editorial board of the MAA's Carus Mathematical Monographs. Lily Khadjavi is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University and is a past co-chair of the Infinite Possibilities Conference. She has served on the boards of Building Diversity in Science, the Barbara Jordan-Bayard Rustin Coalition, and the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus.
Table of Contents
Getting started: G. Karaali and L. S. Khadjavi, An invitation to mathematics for social justice
Essays: K. Hamman, Mathematics in service to democracy
L. Marano, Preparing for student resistance: Rules of engagement for sensitive topics
J. Hamilton and T. J. Pfaff, Social justice and sustainability: Two perspectives on the same system
V. Piercey, Quantitative ethics
D. Kung, Math for social justice: A last math class for responsible citizens
Modules: D. Archey, Sea level change and function composition
J. Beier, Exploring the problem of human trafficking
G. Buhl and S. Q Kelly, Evaluating fairness in electoral districting
S. Cohen and M. Pivarski, Modeling the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
J. Cullinan and S. Hsiao, Voting with partially-ordered preferences
J. Curran and A. Ross, Implementing Social Security: A historical role-playing game
J. Glass and G. Karaali, Matching kids to schools: The school choice problem
B. Gonzalez-Arevalo and W. Huang, Modeling the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States
B. Gonzalez-Arevalo and W. Urbina-Romero, Using calculus to model income inequality
K. Hamman, What does ""fair"" mean?
A. Henderson and E. Kose, Social and environmental justice impacts of industrial agriculture
R. Jaafar, Student loans: Fulfilling the American dream or surviving a financial nightmare?
A. Vierling-Claassen, Modeling social change: The rise in acceptance of same-sex relationships
J. Zobitz, T. Bibelnieks, and M. Lester, Sustainability analysis of a rural Nicaraguan coffee cooperative
G. Karaali and L. S. Khadjavi, Postscript.
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