COVER THEME: LEARNING MATH, LEARNING JUSTICE Rethinking Schools

Rethinking Schools:

 VOLUME 27, ISSUE 3 — SPRING 2013

COVER THEME: LEARNING MATH, LEARNING JUSTICE

This issue of Rethinking Schools previews our new, expanded, and revised edition of Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers. The focus is on teaching math in ways that help students make sense of their world.

Editorial: Just Math

By the editors of Rethinking Schools

Whose Community Is This?
Mathematics of neighborhood displacement

By Eric (Rico) Gutstein

Students use advanced math to study gentrification, displacement, and foreclosure in their neighborhood.

Beyond Marbles
Percent change and social justice

By Flannery Denny

Middle school students analyze a classroom full of social justice issues, armed with their understanding of percent change.

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Responding to Tragedy
2nd graders reach out to the Sikh community

By Dale Weiss

When a racist attack kills members of a local Sikh temple, a 2nd-grade teacher involves her students in a journey of connection and solidarity.

Paradise Lost
Introducing students to climate change through story

By Brady Bennon

The film Paradise Lost—about the rising ocean that threatens Kiribati—proves an evocative introduction to a unit on climate change.

There is a lot more inside this issue →