Volume 27, Issue 3
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
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 MarblesPercent 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.
Responding to Tragedy2nd 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 LostIntroducing 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.