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Fighting Racism with Mathematics

Released Wednesday, 21st July 2021
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Fighting Racism with Mathematics

Fighting Racism with Mathematics

Fighting Racism with Mathematics

Fighting Racism with Mathematics

Wednesday, 21st July 2021
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According to Dr. Deborah Loewenberg Ball, mathematics has the power to disrupt white supremacy unlike any other subject in school. As a professor and former Dean at the University of Michigan, Director of TeachingWorks, and elementary school math teacher herself, Deborah pushes back on the notion that math is culturally neutral. In fact, she believes that changing the way we teach math could help break patterns of inequality and injustice that are perpetuated in our classrooms.

[Transcript for Episode 23 available on EdFixPodcast.com]

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