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SELECTED MATH INTERNET RESOURCES


The following websites provide a starting point for educators interested in finding on-line resources that deal with math and issues of equity, access and social justice. We invite you to share with us any on-line resources you think would be good to add to this list.


The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is a gateway to many great K-12 mathematics and science resources on the Internet.

http://www.enc.org/

Click on Ideas for Reform or Reform in Action to find resources about educational change.


The Math Forum aims to build an online community of teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, and citizens at all levels who have an interest in math and math education.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
Click on Equity and Access to find multilingual resources.


Tales from the Electronic Frontier tells the stories of 10 teachers' actual classroom experiences using the Internet in K-12 science and mathematics.

http://www.wested.org/tales/
Tales presents examples of classroom practice that are progressive, constructive and actively engage children in learning.

SELECTED MATH PRINT RESOURCES

Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice (Volumes 1 and 2) From Rethinking Schools

In Volume I:
Bringing the World into the Math Class by Claudia Zaslavsky
Math and Media: Bias Busters by Bob Peterson
World Poverty and World Resources by Susan Hersh nad Bob Peterson
Math, Equity and Economics

In Volume 2:
Teaching Math Across the Curriculum by Bob Peterson
Percent as a Tool For Social Justice by Bob Peterson
Bias and CD_ROM Encyclopedias by Bob Peterson
Math, Maps, and Misrepresentation by Eric Gutstein

 

Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture and other books on by Claudia Zaslavsky on Multicultural Math Education

Books and articles by Marilyn Frankenstein on Critical Math Education