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Restructuring Math Learning for African American Students

Author : Roland Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781676461043
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring Math Learning for African American Students written by Roland Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide technological capacity is growing exponentially, and in doing so it increases human data search, processing, and sharing capacities. Transnational businesses with local reach are employing leading edge technology tools ever more and are increasingly requiring that their workforce--even low-skilled workers--have competencies for using them. Students can hardly keep up with this exponential growth of data processing speed and knowledge production. I've reached the awareness years ago, that public schools in urban areas fall far short overall in preparing youth to stay abreast of these demands, due in large part to outdated teaching methods and insufficient resources. One indicator that supports this assessment is the ongoing high dropout rate of African American and Latino students in public high schools of which educators and educational leaders are aware. One means of helping students to adapt to an increasingly technologically demanding market place, is to use interactive technologies infused with the curriculum. Students attending urban public schools, as with most youth today, have already immersed themselves in various new technologies during their activities outside of formal school settings as with social networking through Twitter and Facebook. Leveraging this social and knowledge capital in more formal educational public school settings is one means of enhancing their academic learning experiences and narrowing the achievement gaps they face. This study focused on what dialogue and learning occurred in a Newark public school math class while students were in a culturally-empowering learning space that utilized advanced interactive technologies, coupled with liberating ideologies embedded in the curriculum. The math activities were contextualized within and linked to the broader communities students come from, rather than abstracted from their communities. The students accessed and managed available sociocultural and technological resources to construct meaning and knowledge applicable to their collective self-identified community issues and motives. It has my been experience throughout the course of this study that such an environment produces educational experiences for minority students that are transformative of existing constraining structures in public schools, affording agency for disadvantaged groups. This result can in turn close the knowledge and achievement gaps they face.

The Brilliance of Black Children in Mathematics

Author : Jacqueline Leonard
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623960819
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book The Brilliance of Black Children in Mathematics written by Jacqueline Leonard and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children. The first section of the book provides some historical perspective critical to understanding the current state of education in the U.S., specifically for the education of African American children. The following sections include chapters on policy, learning, ethnomathematics, student identity, and teacher preparation as it relates to the mathematical education of Black children. Through offering “counternarratives” about mathematically successful Black youth, advocating for a curriculum that is grounded in African American culture and ways of thinking, providing shining examples of the brilliance of Blacks students, and promoting high expectations for all rather than situating students as the problem, the authors of this book provide powerful insights related to the teaching and learning of mathematics for African American students. As is made evident in this book, effective teaching involves much more than just engaging students in inquiry-based pedagogy (Kitchen, 2003). The chapters offered in this book demonstrate how mathematics instruction for African American students needs to take into account historical marginalization and present-day policies that do harm to Black students (Kunjufu, 2005). Empowering mathematics instruction for African American students needs to take into consideration and promote students’ cultural, spiritual, and historical identities. Furthermore, mathematics instruction for African American students should create opportunities for students to express themselves and the needs of their communities as a means to promote social justice both within their classrooms and communities.

Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth

Author : Danny Bernard Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135676224
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth written by Danny Bernard Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together theory & methods from cultural & cog. perspectives to examine forces contributing to why a dispropriate no. of African-Amer. students don't reach their potential in math & are then underrepresented in professions requiring math skills.

How to Teach Math to Black Students

Author : Shahid Muhammad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book How to Teach Math to Black Students written by Shahid Muhammad and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for parents and teachers of African American students, this book provides strategies for correcting the racial achievement gap in upper-grade mathematics. Advice is provided on instilling confidence in African American students and on teaching math in a less sterile and theoretical way. Also explored is how critical thinking skills are essential in understanding math. A wealth of ideas is provided on creating relevant word problems to help students better understand basic math functions.

Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children

Author : Danny Bernard Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135590966
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Book Synopsis Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children by : Danny Bernard Martin

Download or read book Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children written by Danny Bernard Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education research and policy, this collection offers authoritative scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black learners experience mathematics in schools and their communities.

Making Black Girls Count in Math Education

Author : Nicole M. Joseph
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1682537757
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Making Black Girls Count in Math Education written by Nicole M. Joseph and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Black Girls Count in Math Education explores the experiences of Black girls and women in mathematics from preschool to graduate school, deftly probing race and gender inequity in STEM fields. Nicole M. Joseph investigates factors that contribute to the glaring underrepresentation of Black female students in the mathematics pipeline. Joseph’s unflinching account calls attention to educational structures and practices that contribute to race- and gender-based stratification in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The author also disentangles a complex network of historical and sociopolitical elements that influence the perception and experiences of Black girls and women both inside and outside of mathematics education. In her clear-eyed assessment of the intersectional difficulties facing this marginalized group, Joseph offers a critical view of the existing mathematics education research, practice, and policies that have neglected Black girls and women; confronts the problematic history of mathematics education policy; and considers imbalances in the current teacher workforce in US mathematics programs. She then provides practical, actionable suggestions for reform. Joseph invites students, families, and educators, as well as researchers, policy makers, and other relevant stakeholders to disrupt systems, structures, and ideologies. She calls for an end to racism and sexism in many areas of mathematics education, including learning environments, curriculum design and implementation, and testing and assessments. An essential read for anyone concerned about supporting the mathematical learning and development of Black girls and women, this work advocates for coalition-building so that greater, more equitable opportunities for learning and engagement may be offered to Black female students.

Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education

Author : Julius Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351356151
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education written by Julius Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education brings together scholarship that uses critical race theory (CRT) to provide a comprehensive understanding of race, racism, social justice, and experiential knowledge of African Americans’ mathematics education. CRT has gained traction within the educational research sphere, and this book extends and applies this framework to chronicle the paths of mathematics educators who advance and use CRT. This edited collection brings together scholarship that addresses the racial challenges thrusted upon Black learners and the gatekeeping nature of the discipline of mathematics. Across the ten chapters, scholars expand the uses of CRT in mathematics education and share insights with stakeholders regarding the racialized experiences of mathematics students and educators. Collectively, the volume explains how researchers, practitioners, and policymakers can use CRT to examine issues of race, racism, and other forms of oppression in mathematics education for Black children and adults.

IMPROVING SCHOOLS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS

Author : Sheryl J. Denbo
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398083657
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book IMPROVING SCHOOLS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS written by Sheryl J. Denbo and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Schools for African American Students is designed to provide educational leaders with a better understanding of how to recognize the diversity of strengths that Black students bring with them to school and how to use these strengths to improve achievement. The articles contained in this book discuss generic education issues such as policy reform, the importance of high quality teaching, and the improvement of schools from the perspective of the academic achievement of African American students. Part I explores institutional racism in the context of America's public schools and provides suggestions for educational leaders to eliminate harmful policies and practices within educational institutions and settings. Part II discusses the kinds of institutional and instructional changes that are needed to support successful schooling of African American children and youth. Part III focuses on the challenges presented to African American students by the current high stakes testing environment that surrounds standards, assessment, and accountability. A review of the literature on schools that have succeeded in improving achievement for African American students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels with districts moving towards narrowing the achievement gap is included. This text examines a wide variety of policies, programs, practices, and research that will provide valuable insight. The emphasis throughout the book is on the ability of educators to successfully restructure their schools, offer high quality teaching and learning standards for African American students and to make the kinds of changes that will result in high achievement for all students.

Balancing the Equation

Author : Joi Angelle Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780542883491
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Balancing the Equation written by Joi Angelle Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The type of education that a student receives in mathematics today has the power to alter their life chances and life goals. Yet, equity around mathematics education remains an elusive goal. Black students are especially vulnerable because they attend a disproportionate number of "at-risk schools," where there are lower percentages of certified teachers, and higher percentages of out of field instructors. Their situation is further complicate by the complex manner in which race plays itself out in the mathematics classroom. In this study, I examine African American students' opportunity to learn mathematics in two central-city middle schools. Opportunity to learn mathematics is envisioned in two parts. First, it is characterized as students' opportunity to engage deeply in mathematics content along the dimensions of cognitive depth, explanation and justification and problem solving. Secondly, it is characterized as the opportunities students have to participate in the enterprise of learning mathematics (both how students participate, and how participation is structured for them). Once, examined, I explore the role of race in these mathematics classrooms through a series of reflective-video interviews with teachers. In these interviews, I seek to understand teacher's perceptions of their African American students as both learners and classroom participants in the endeavor of mathematics. Finally, through interviews, I examine the mathematics and academic identity of successful and unsuccessful African American middle-school mathematics students.

The Influence of Restructuring on Teachers' Beliefs about and Practices with African American Students

Author : Pauline Lipman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Influence of Restructuring on Teachers' Beliefs about and Practices with African American Students written by Pauline Lipman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Restructuring in the Classroom

Author : Richard F. Elmore
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring in the Classroom written by Richard F. Elmore and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996-03-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restructuring in the Classroom goes into the classrooms of three elementary schools to take a detailed look at how teachers responded to changes in structure in their schools. The authors interviewed principals, teachers, parents, support staff, and district personnel to produce in-depth case studies of schools at various stages of restructuring, showing what the school had done to change its structure and how those changes had occurred. Selecting four teachers in each school for closer observation and discussion, the authors reveal how those teachers responded to the changes around them in their day-to-day practice in the classroom. They show, for example, how teaching practice is or is not affected by changes in the way students are grouped for learning, in the way teachers relate to groups of students and to each other, and in the way time is allocated to subject matter.

Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap

Author : Matthew Lynch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap written by Matthew Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to this timely analysis, the myth of the racial achievement gap has nothing to do with genetics and everything to do wotha host of embarrassing yet reversible social and pedagogical failures. For every problem raised, the text offers a levelheaded solution, culminating in a plan for closing the supposed racial achievement gap for good.

Perspectives on African Americans

Author : Marilyn E. Strutchens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on African Americans written by Marilyn E. Strutchens and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus of book is on equality issues in mathematics education for African American students and looks critically at successful and unsuccessful teaching practices.

Mathematics for Equity

Author : Na’ilah Suad Nasir
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807773069
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics for Equity written by Na’ilah Suad Nasir and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, nationally renowned scholars join classroom teachers to share equity-oriented approaches that have been successful with urban high school mathematics students. Compiling for the first time major research findings and practitioner experiences from Railside High School, the volume describes the evolution of a fundamentally different conception of learners and teaching. The chapters bring together research and reflection on teacher collaboration and professional community, student outcomes and mathematics classroom culture, reform curricula and pedagogy, and ongoing teacher development. Mathematics for Equity will be invaluable reading for teachers, schools, and districts interested in maintaining a focus on equity and improving student learning while making sense of the new demands of the Common Core State Standards. Book Features: Core principles of an equity-centered mathematics program. Examples of how to focus and organize the collaborative work of a math department to develop a shared pedagogy. Student experiences with an equity pedagogy that focuses on building perseverance, flexibility in thinking, and deep conceptual understanding. Connections between reconceptualizing learners and teaching, and achieving deep mathematics learning and equitable outcomes. Contributors include: Jo Boaler, Ilana Seidel Horn, Judith Warren Little, and Rachel Lotan. “Mathematics for Equity provides a kaleidoscopic view, in the voices of teachers, researchers, and students themselves, of one of the nation’s most ambitious and successful attempts at teaching mathematics for equity. It shows what it takes to create a climate that supports students and teachers in engaging in meaningful mathematical activity—and, alas, how vulnerable such environments are to the wrong kinds of ‘accountability.’ Read it and learn.” —Alan H. Schoenfeld, University of California at Berkeley “Want to fix what's wrong with mathematics instruction in your school? Read this book with your colleagues and do what it inspires you to do. Written by the brave teachers and former students who did it, as well as researchers.” —Phil Daro, writing team, Common Core Standards, Strategic Education Research Partnership

Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching

Author : Emily P. Bonner
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761853995
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching written by Emily P. Bonner and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching: The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex focuses on the theory and practices of a highly successful mathematics teacher of African American children in a high-poverty school. The book aims to contribute to the limited literature base in this area in mathematics education. The discussions in the book center on the ideals of culturally responsive teaching (CRT), and seek to build understanding of this concept in the context of mathematics. Further, the story of Gloria Jean Merriex speaks to the importance of historical influences on teaching practice. Her story is couched in sociopolitical realities of the American educational system, and is discussed as such. Cultural incongruities that exist in classrooms and contribute to the black-white achievement gap, particularly in mathematics, are also discussed.

Improving Access to Mathematics

Author : Na'ilah Suad Nasir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Improving Access to Mathematics written by Na'ilah Suad Nasir and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key experts with extensive research and classroom experience examine how the multiple dimensions of race, class, culture, power, and knowledge interact in mathematics classrooms to foster and create inequities. Chapters explore new theoretical perspectives, describe successful classroom practices, and offer insights into how we might develop an effective sociocultural approach to equity in math education. Seeing diversity as an instructional resource rather than as an obstacle to be overcome, this forward-looking volume: Helps us to understand the process by which diverse learners experience mathematics education. Examines the way students’ identities can influence their mathematics learning. Describes mathematics education programs that have demonstrated their success with poor, urban, and rural students of color. Explains why certain teaching and learning interventions are successful. Offers culturally based approaches to mathematics education, including activities for the classroom.

Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students

Author : Glendolyn Duhon-Jeanlouis
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761853189
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students written by Glendolyn Duhon-Jeanlouis and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students is an effective tool for educators and a textbook for professors of higher education. The concepts discussed in the book provide a body of knowledge that will enable leaders to understand the critical issues surrounding inner city school students in their ability to learn mathematical concepts. Research shows that three to five teachers of mathematics leave the school system within the first two years of teaching because of frustration experienced while helping inner city school students comprehend and master mathematical skills. Students are often discouraged by inappropriate teaching strategies that favor learning math concepts in isolation, rather than making them relevant to daily life or cultural experiences. Teachers of math must clearly understand inner city school students' learning styles when they are implementing a process for the student to learn. Classroom teachers in the twenty-first century must have valid knowledge of how the brains of inner city school children work. For students to master and comprehend math skills, learning activities must be both fun and relevant to their present body of knowledge about life and living.