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Supplemental Materials
Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom
Share this pageEdited by Gizem Karaali; Lily S. Khadjavi
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
Mathematics for Social Justice offers a collection of
resources for mathematics faculty interested in incorporating
questions of social justice into their classrooms. The book begins
with a series of essays from instructors experienced in integrating
social justice themes into their pedagogy; these essays contain
political and pedagogical motivations as well as nuts-and-bolts
teaching advice. The heart of the book is a collection of fourteen
classroom-tested modules featuring ready-to-use activities and
investigations for the college mathematics classroom. The
mathematical tools and techniques used are relevant to a wide variety
of courses including college algebra, math for the liberal arts,
calculus, differential equations, discrete mathematics, geometry,
financial mathematics, and combinatorics. The social justice themes
include human trafficking, income inequality, environmental justice,
gerrymandering, voting methods, and access to education.
The volume editors are leaders of the national movement to include
social justice material into mathematics teaching. Gizem Karaali is
Associate Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. She is one of
the founding editors of The Journal of Humanistic
Mathematics, and an associate editor for The Mathematical
Intelligencer and Numeracy ; she also serves on
the editorial board of the MAA's Carus Mathematical Monographs. Lily
Khadjavi is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Loyola Marymount
University and is a past co-chair of the Infinite Possibilities
Conference. She has served on the boards of Building Diversity in
Science, the Barbara Jordan-Bayard Rustin Coalition, and the Harvard
Gender and Sexuality Caucus.
Readership
Instructors teaching college-level mathematics and others interested in the connections of mathematics to social issues.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom
- Cover Cover11
- Title page iii5
- Copyright iv6
- Contents v7
- Preface vii9
- Part A Getting Started 111
- Part B Essays 1727
- Chapter 2. Mathematics in Service to Democracy (Kira Hamman) 1929
- Chapter 3. Preparing for Student Resistance: Rules of Engagement for Sensitive Topics (Lisa Marano) 2333
- Chapter 4. Social Justice and Sustainability: Two Perspectives on the Same System (Jason Hamilton and Thomas J. Pfaff) 3343
- Chapter 5. Quantitative Ethics (Victor Piercey) 4353
- Chapter 6. Math for Social Justice: A Last Math Class for Responsible Citizens (Dave Kung) 5161
- Part C Modules 5767
- Chapter 7. Sea Level Change and Function Composition (Dawn Archey) 5969
- Chapter 8. Exploring the Problem of Human Trafficking (Julie Beier) 7383
- Chapter 9. Evaluating Fairness in Electoral Districting (Geoffrey Buhl and Sean Q Kelly) 91101
- Chapter 10. Modeling the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (Steve Cohen and Melanie Pivarski) 105115
- Chapter 11. Voting with Partially-Ordered Preferences (John Cullinan and Samuel Hsiao) 123133
- Chapter 12. Implementing Social Security: A Historical Role-Playing Game (John Curran and Andrew Ross) 139149
- Chapter 13. Matching Kids to Schools: The School Choice Problem (Julie Glass and Gizem Karaali) 155165
- Chapter 14. Modeling the 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis in the United States (Bárbara González-Arévalo and Wanwan Huang) 171181
- Chapter 15. Using Calculus to Model Income Inequality (Bárbara González-Arévalo and Wilfredo Urbina-Romero) 183193
- Chapter 16. What Does Fair Mean? (Kira Hamman) 193203
- Chapter 17. Social and Environmental Justice Impacts of Industrial Agriculture (Amy Henderson and Emek Köse) 207217
- Chapter 18. Student Loans: Fulfilling the American Dream or Surviving a Financial Nightmare? (Reem Jaafar) 221231
- Chapter 19. Modeling Social Change: The Rise in Acceptance of Same-Sex Relationships (Angela Vierling-Claassen) 237247
- Chapter 20. Sustainability Analysis of a Rural Nicaraguan Coffee Cooperative (John Zobitz, Tracy Bibelnieks, and Mark Lester) 249259
- Postscript 273283
- Back Cover Back Cover1288