AuthorLeonard, Jacqueline
TitleCulturally specific pedagogy in the mathematics classroom : strategies for teachers and students / Jacqueline Leonard
Imprint New York, NY : Routledge, c2008
Descript xix, 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Culture, community, and mathematics achievement -- Cognition and cultural pedagogy -- Cultural pedagogy -- Problem solving, problem posing, multi-cultural literature and computer scaffolding -- The underground railroad : a context for learning mathematics and social justice -- Women in aviation and space : the importance of gender role models in mathematics education -- Learning mathematics for empowerment in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms -- Race and achievement in mathematics


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Social aspects
  2. Multicultural education -- United States
  3. Minorities -- Education -- United States
  4. Critical pedagogy -- United States

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