High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice Empower students to be the change— join the teaching mathematics for social justice movement! This book explains how to teach mathematics for self- and community-empowerment. It walks teachers step-by-step through the process of using mathematics—across all high school content domains—as a tool to explore issues of social injustice including: environmental injustice; wealth inequality; food insecurity; and gender, LGBTQ, and racial discrimination. This book features · Content cross-referenced by mathematical concept and social issue · Downloadable instructional materials · User-friendly and logical interior design · Guidance for designing and implementing social justice lessons driven by your own students'unique passions and challenges.

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Introduction -- Why Is Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice Critical? -- This Book's Authorship -- The Contributors -- Who Is This Book for? -- The Book's Organization -- Part I: Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice -- Chapter 1: What Is Social Justice, and Why Does It Matter in Teaching Mathematics? -- What Do We Mean by Social Justice? -- What Is Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice? -- Why Social Justice in Mathematics Education? -- Conclusion -- Reflection and Action -- Chapter 2: Getting Ready for the Classroom -- Content Matters -- Context Matters -- When Matters -- How Matters -- Responding to Pushback or Backlash -- Conclusion -- Reflection and Action -- Chapter 3: Instructional Tools for the Social Justice Mathematics Lesson -- Establishing Goals -- Assessing Purposefully -- Teaching Equitably -- Managing Discourse -- Conclusion -- Reflection and Action -- Chapter 4: Teaching the Social Justice Mathematics Lesson -- Social Justice Mathematics Framework -- Element 1: Equitable Mathematics Teaching Practices -- Element 2: Authentic, Challenging Social and Mathematical Question or Concern -- Element 3: Social and Mathematical Understanding -- Element 4: Social and Mathematical Investigation -- Element 5: Social and Mathematical Reflection -- Element 6: Action and Public Product -- Planning to Implement a SJML -- Common Structures for all SJMLs -- Using the Lesson Overview to Plan -- Final Thoughts on Planning to Implement -- Last Words Before You Go Teach -- Conclusion -- Reflection and Action -- Part II: Social Justice Mathematics Lessons -- Chapter 5: Number and Quantity -- 5.1 The Mathematics of Transformational Resistance by Mary Candace Raygoza -- 5.2 Do Just Some Students Take Honors Courses? by Basil M. Conway IV -- 5.3 Listen to GLSEN by Bryan Meyer and John W. Staley -- 5.4 Estimated Wealth Distribution in the United States and the World by Enrique Ortiz -- Chapter 6: Algebra and Functions -- 6.1 Children at the Border: Looking at the Numbers by Samantha Fletcher and Holly Anthony -- 6.2 Climate Change in Alaska by Basil M. Conway IV -- 6.3 Culturally Relevant Income Inequality by Andrew Reardon -- 6 e by Bryan Meyer and Brian R. Lawler -- 6.5 Literacy: What Matters and Why? by Frances Harper and Sheila Orr -- 6.6 What's a Fair Living Wage? by Frances Harper -- 6.7 What's the Cost of Globalization? by Allyson Hallman- Thrasher and Rachael Eriksen Brown -- Chapter 7: Statistics and Probability -- 7.1 A False Positive -- 7.2 Are You a Citizen? 2020 Census by Travis Weiland and Lisa Poling -- 7.3 "BBQ Becky," Policing, and Racial Justice by Mary Candace Raygoza and Laura Gorrin.4 Intersectionality and the Wage Gap by Stacy R. Jones, Carlos Nicolas Gomez, Hilary Tanck, and Eric Siy 7.4 Do Postal Codes Predict Test Scores? by Allyson Lam.