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Master's Thesis: Fix The Funds Curriculum Teaching Math Through a World-Framing Pedagogy to Confront Inequitable Funding Allocation
Knight, Nikolaus Butler
Knight, Nikolaus Butler
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Mathematics—Study and teaching—United States, Education—Political aspects—United States, Social justice—Study and teaching—United States, Culturally relevant pedagogy—United States, School budgets—United States
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Why is math important? When I was a student, teachers used to say that math is important because if you don’t learn math, people will steal your money. What does this answer to that layered question look like on a macro-level? Might one perhaps look at local and federal budgets and say that their tax money has been stolen from them? Black communities perhaps might look at a history of enslavement and apartheid and say that money, resources, and dignity were stolen from them. What does it look like for educators to teach math rooted in this larger conversation to make math important skill for students to learn? What is, then, required of teachers that teach mathematics? How does one use academic content and Common Core mathematical standards to provide students with the tools they need to make a difference and disrupt the inequities that plague their communities and their world? How does one use math as a vehicle to teach and learn about issues of racial and social (in)justice? The objective of this curriculum is to provide teachers with the resources, literature, and inspiration to teach mathematics in a way that creates space for students to take what they learn from math and do something more meaningful with it. Fix The Funds ultimately pushes educators and students to open the doors for radical possibilities, transformation, and World-Framing inside the classroom and beyond.