CONNECTING MATH TO OUR LIVES
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