Middle school mathematics lessons to explore, understand, and respond to social injustice. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Basil M. Conway [and six others].
• Authors: IV, Conway, Basil M; Id-Deen, Lateefah; Raygoza, Mary Candace; Ruiz, Amanda; Staley, John W; Thanheiser, Eva
• Contents: Preface; Lesson 6.1 Food Apartheid: Graphing and Understanding Access to Healthy Food; Lesson 6.2 Cor(o)ner Stores and Food Apartheid; Lesson 6.3 Billionaire Power; Lesson 6.4 Middle School Math to Explore People Represented in Our World and Community; Lesson 7.1 Hey Google, Who′s a Mathematician; Lesson 7.2 The True Cost of that $29 T-shirt in the Store Window; Lesson 7.3 Majority and Power; Lesson 7.4 Smoking and Vaping: Targeting of Marginalized Communities by the Tobacco Industry; Lesson 7.5 Health Race and Ratios; Lesson 7.6 Health Inequalities: COVID and Other Health Conditions; Lesson 8.1 Gerrymandering of Voting Districts; Lesson 8.2 National Team Pay Investigation; Lesson 8.3 The Black Vote in America: Impact of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; Lesson 9.1 Playing with Data; Lesson 9.2 The Mathematics of Toxic Air; Lesson 9.3 Gender Pay Gap; Lesson 9.4 How Many Meals Can Minimum Wage Buy; Lesson 10.1 Map Projections; Lesson 10.2 3D Modeling for Water; Lesson 10.3 Water is Life; Lesson 10.4 Accessible Playground; Lesson 10.5 Investigating Areas to Determine Fairness
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 510.712; Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Middle school); Social justice and education
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781071881620
• Related ISBNs: 9781071845523
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