Anti-Racist Math Education

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A collection of resources, readings and techniques for people who want to combat racism in the math classroom. Please collaborate, help and expand this doc by adding your comments or suggestions or resources. Contact John Golden, goldenj@gvsu.edu, @mathhombre, with concerns or ideas.

Update 5/2020: So many people have had great suggestions or made the additions themselves. If you’re willing to leave your name here as a contributor, please do!

Contributors: Lynn Selking

Table of Contents

Classroom Practice

People

Online Leaders

Math Teachers attending to Equity

Math Education Scholars

Additional Twitter Follows

Instagram Follows

Presentations

Mathematics Teaching Textbooks

Lessons & Lesson Plans

Publications

Math Focused

Others

Books to read/assign to students

Other Resources

Blogs & Websites

Podcasts

Blogposts

Equity

2020 posts

Classroom Practice

• Pathway to Equitable Instruction on dismantling racism in math class
• Key elements in Teaching Math for Social Justice (Berry, Lawler et al)
• One suggested buffer against unconscious bias: "Consistently asking students to explain their reasoning when answering a question" - from In Math, Teachers' Unconscious Biases May Be More Subtle Than You Think
• Low floor high ceiling tasks

• Same but Different Math
• DOK Matrices - Robert Kaplinsky
• SPLAT and other numeracy routines
• Open Middle

• Understanding-based assessment with reassessment possibilities
• Addressing stereotype threat explicitly

• Cf. Hidden Brain episode on Claude Steele and Whistling Vivaldi

• High teacher expectations of individual learners including growth mindset
• Feedback that communicates those expectations. Cf. Dylan Kane’s Opportunity post.

• Culturally relevant teaching in math (cf Gloria Ladson Billings, Chris Emdin, Beverly Daniel Tatum linked in Publications)
• Equity stance in math class, Mark Chubb.
• Also, Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching (Dras. Julia Aguirre, Maria Zavala, and more) via TEACHMath
• implementing constructive discourse culture (cf 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions, Peg Smith)
• Curriculum Design for Inclusion and Equity, Dionne Aminata, Illustrative Mathematics, which connects to culturally relevant pedagogy.
• Related, Math Was Never Neutral, José Vilson

• We wouldn’t have to argue whether algebra II needs to be taught as a gatekeeper for STEM fields because everyone would have equitable access to the curriculum and students could make a fairer choice on their own.

• Growth Mind-set: Carol Dweck
• NCTM/NCSM Moving Forward

• heterogeneous groupings, both between and within classes
• differentiated support for each learner to reach standards by designing rich tier 1 instruction that allows for multiple entry points and solution pathways and uses a range of approaches.
• just-in-time interventions that do not replace daily, on pace instruction and are based the results from formative assessment.

People

Online Leaders

Marian Dingle, https://www.mariandingle.com/blog,

José Luis Vilson, TheJLV,  (co-founder of educolor),

Kari Kokka (Pitt profile and her list of K-12 Social Justice STEM Curricular Resources)

Math Teachers attending to Equity

Jason Buell, Always Formative

@figgiston, Theological Engineer

Tina Cardone, Drawing on Math

Kristopher Childs, website, Real-Life Mathematics

Dylan Kane, Five Twelve Thirteen

David Kung, website

Wendy Menard, Her Mathness

Anne Schwartz, A Brand New Line

Francis Su, website,

Math Education Scholars

Robert Berry, ResearchGate

Benjamin Dickman, ResearchGate

Matt Felton-Koestler, website, ResearchGate 

Rochelle Gutierrez, ResearchGate

Eric Gutstein, ResearchGate

Lateefah Id-Deen, ResearchGate

Nicole Joseph, ResearchGate, Interview

Kari Kokka, ResearchGate

Brian Lawler, ResearchGate

John Staley

Cathery Yeh, From Margin to Center

Additional Twitter Follows

JB, Dr Smiley Math Teacher, LaraMaths, Victoria Thompson, Monise Seward, Grace Chen, SocialJusticeMath, Luis Antonio Leyva, Natalie Odom Pough, Mathematically Gifted and Black …

Instagram Follows

Blackgirlmathgic, Mathematichole, ...

Presentations

Iris Carl lectures at the annual NCTM meeting are the annual high note for this.

• Carol Malloy, 2008 Educate All Students in Mathematics
• Cathy Seeley, 2011 Making Democracy a Reality in Schools
• Uri Treisman 2013, Eyes on the Prize
• Rochelle Gutierrez, 2014 Radical in High Stakes Education
• Freeman A. Hrabowski 2015, Love for Mathematics
• Bill Tate, 2016  Factions in School
• Marta Civil, 2017 Have You Been Erased in Math Class?
• Danny B Martin, 2018 Take a Knee
• José Luis Vilson, 2019 Belonging
• Nicole Joseph, 2022 Black Girls Count

Others: Math Specific

• Nicole Joseph and Luis Leyva, Math and Antiracism 
• Natalie Odom Pough, Unpacking and Connecting with the Standards (Adobe Connect)
• Marian Dingle, Teaching Children of Color
• Rochelle Gutierrez, Rehumanizing Mathematics
• Rochelle Gutierrez, Restor(y)ing Mathematics
• Kari Kokka, Social Justice Mathematics & Teacher Activism [Abolition Science Radio podcast link]
• Danny Martin, Brilliance of Black Children (just 3 min!)
• Lee Stiff, What You Know for Sure (just 5 min!)
• TODOS panel on the Changing Landscape of Math Education with Marian Dingle, Rochelle Gutierrez and more.
• TODOS/NCTM Rehumanizing Mathematics webinar
• Erica Graham on Anti-Racist Mathematics

Others: Non-math

• Gloria Ladson Billings, An America That Doesn’t Exist, and explaining Critical Race Theory
• Ibram Kendi, TED dialogue, How to Build an Antiracist World
• Christopher Emdin, SXSW, We Got It From Here
• Robin DiAngelo, Deconstructing White Privilege

Mathematics Teaching Textbooks

attending to equity

• Necessary Conditions, Geoff Krall. Posits Academic Safety as part of a three facet model for teaching.
• High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice (2020) by Robert Q. Berry III, Basil M. Conway IV, Brian R. Lawler, John W. Staley. Twitter: SocialJusticeMath, companion website
• Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers (2013) by Eric Gutstein & Bob Peterson
• The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practices (2013) by Julia Aguirre, Karen Mayfield-Ingram, Danny Martin .

Lessons & Lesson Plans

• Radical Math (lesson plans for teachers interested in integrating issues of social & economic justice into the math classroom)
• High School Math Lessons to Explore, Understand and Respond to Social Justice
• Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by The Numbers
• K-12 Social Justice STEM Curricular Resources
• Skewthescript.org : tends towards AP Stats, but can be modified for other course needs
• Algebra2 Social Justice Math led by Benjamin Dickman

Publications

  Math Focused

• Gloria Ladson Billings, The Dreamkeepers
• Lisa Delpit, Multiplication is for White People,
• Ilana Horn, Motivated
• Danny Martin, ed. of The Brilliance of Black Children in Mathematics
• Robert Moses, Radical Equations
• Cases for Mathematics Teacher Educators: Facilitating Conversations about Inequities in Mathematics Classrooms, AMTE, October 1, 2016, Dorothy Y. White, Sandra Crespo, Marta Civil (Editors)
• Robert Berry talks about how to teach Black children math and shares a lot of what looks like great reads. He also recommends this article: "I am a teacher. That's what I've done almost all my life. I teach." in J. Urban Math Education, about his mentor Carol Malloy.
• Nicole Joseph’s work on Teaching Black Girls Math is covered in this Mindshift post. Original article in Harvard Ed Review by Joseph, Hailu, and Sharif Matthews.
• Kari Kokka (as sole or co-author):

• Social Justice Pedagogy for Whom? Developing Privileged Students’ Critical Mathematics Consciousness (The Urban Review)
• ‘How I show up for Brown and Black students’: Asian American male mathematics teachers seeking solidarity (Race Ethnicity and Education)
• Other pubs listed here: https://www.education.pitt.edu/people/KarenKokka/Publication

• NCTM, Rehumanizing Mathematics for Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Students (Annual Perspectives in Mathematics Education series, 2018)
• NCTM, Math is a Verb, Lessons from Cultures Around the World
• Francis Su, Math for Human Flourishing
• Eric “Rico” Gutstein, “Our Issues, Our People—Math as Our Weapon”: Critical Mathematics in a Chicago Neighborhood High School, JRME, 11/2016, Vol. 47, Issue 5
• Joseph, Hailu, Matthews, Normalizing Black Girls’ Humanity in Mathematics Classrooms
• This whole thread from Lani Horn is an amazing reading list, including several here and going beyond.
• Equitable Math, great specific guides to making change from a broad collective of teachers and groups. Maybe an outgrowth of the new California Standards for the Teaching Profession? See especially their Pathway document.
• Humanizing Disability in Mathematics Education:Forging New Paths

Others

• Gloria Ladson Billings, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
• Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
• Christopher Emdin, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood,
• bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress
• Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist. Mindshift covers how How to Be an Antiracist applies to education
• Cornelius Minor, We Got This 
• Mica Pollock, Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School
• Beverly Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
• Everyday Anti-Racism - book of scholarly articles on anti-racism in schools

Books to read/assign to students

• Radical Equations by Robert Moses

Other Resources

Blogs & Websites

Math & Science

• Sam Shah and Hema Khodai’s Humanizing Mathematics Conference
• Twitter #sojustmath, #educolor, #cleartheair
• MTBoS Math and Justice site
• https://equitablemath.org/ 
• Tian An, Can Mathematics Be Antiracist? (AMS)
• Vanessa Rivera-Quinones, What does anti-racism in mathematics look like? (AMS)
• Sarah Sparks, Ed Week, In Math, Teachers' Unconscious Biases May Be More Subtle Than You Think; based on Yasemin Copur Gencturk Ed Researcher article
• STEM Education and Social Justice Conference
• Abolition Science Radio (linktr.ee and twitter link)
• Maisha Moses, The Young People’s Project (built on work of her father, Robert Moses, Algebra Project)
• Tina Cardone, Algebra 1, ’How do we help?’ might not be the question to ask first
• Wendy Menard’s anti-racism resources
• Erikson Early Math consortium with Resources for Racial Justice in Early Math
• Mathematically Gifted & Black
• NCSU stories of Emancipation era Black Mathematicians
• Kris Childs’ resources for Black Mathematician Month

Education

• General Anti-Racist resources (Gdoc)
• Dismantling Racism website, includes very good definitions of racism, history, and white supremacy culture.
• Teaching Tolerance, their anti-racist education page
• Teaching While White blog, podcast, etc.
• Val Brown, The Students Are Watching at antiracistfuture.org 
• Christina Torres, Ed Week, Anti-Racist Education
• Shanna White, Lessons in Social Justice
• Paolo Freire
• Dr David J Johns on Disrupting Implicit Racial Bias and Other Forms of Discrimination
• Ethnic Studies educator Shraddha Shirude on Giving Math Purpose
• Abolitionist Teaching google doc
• Abolitionist Teaching Network
• Confronting Whiteness, teacher and learner training
• Online Introduction to Critical Race Theory Course by Adrienne Keene
• CARE https://antiracistfuture.org/ antiracist educator group
• Edwin Mayorga’s Wakelet of Anti-Racist Teaching resources

Podcasts

• Justice in America
• TODOS podcasts
• The Leading Equity Podcast

Blogposts

Equity

• Brian: Black brilliance 
• Brian Bushart, series on Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
• Cheesemonkeysf: Privilege to combat racism, Trust is built in small moments 
• David Coffey: How can I help?
• Christopher Danielson: Not being defensive 
• Wendy Menard: A new year 
• Anne Schwartz: Addressing race and racism among teachers 

2020 posts

written specifically after George Floyd’s murder or in response to Black Lives Matter

• Jonathan Halabi Dear Young People
• José Luis Vilson Justice Letter to Educators
• Fawn Nguyen Gardening and Teaching
• Marian Dingle How Are You?
• Dylan Kane Black Lives Matter
• Zach Cresswell Riot Apologetics
• Sam Shah It’s Tuesday Evening
• Matt Vaudrey Timeline of Whiteness
• NCTM presidents A Statement

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