Measuring Students’ Mathematical Literacy in Culturally Responsive Mathematics Classroom

Developing mathematical thinking in the primary classroom: liberating students and teachers as learners of mathematics

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Culturally relevant mathematics: students' cultural engagement with statistics

This poster reports on the results of a culturally relevant mathematics unit, the Community Mapping Project (CMP), where urban students learned statistics by producing and analyzing maps of their own community using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In this poster we show how three aspects of culturally relevant pedagogy, familiarity of context and authentic purpose, and informal linguistic...

Culturally Responsive Policies

Dilemmatic conversations: Some challenges of culturally responsive discourse in a high school English classroom

This paper reports findings derived from a qualitative research study focused on seven English teachers at a hyperdiverse high school as they learned to analyze their classroom talk for moments of conflict. Using methods derived from interactional ethnography and systemic functional linguistics, the author analyzes the ways that one teacher uses a “heroic White teacher” text, LouAnne Johnson’s ...

Culturally Aware Mathematics Education Technology

Education and learning take place in a situation that is heavily influenced by the culture of the learners’ context because this context affects a learner’s cognitive processes in learning. Hence, to improve the conditions for learning, e-learning environments and their contents have to be presented and interact with the learner in a culturally appropriate way. Therefore, an e-learning system f...