Developing Ambitious Mathematics Teaching With an Equity Stance: Rethinking Routine Practice

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium challenges a conventional notion that attention to equity (e.g. issues related to race, class, culture, language, and gender) compromises exemplary mathematics instruction. Using the construct of ambitious mathematics teaching, each teacher education project will describe experiences and activities that they have designed to support pre-service and in-service teachers in developing routine teaching practices that are both ambitious and equitable, with attention to the tensions and leverage points that they have encountered. Through interaction with the audience, implications for mathematics teacher education will be addressed.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research in Mathematics Education

Chair

• Julia Maria Aguirre, University of Washington - Tacoma

Papers

• Making Equitable Practices Visible in Elementary Mathematics Teacher Preparation - Elham Kazemi, University of Washington; Megan L. Franke, University of California - Los Angeles

• Learning to Design High-Cognitive-Demand Mathematics Lessons That Connect to Community-Based Resources - Julia Maria Aguirre, University of Washington - Tacoma; Erin Turner, The University of Arizona

• Developmentally and Culturally Responsive Practice in 4K Mathematics: Drawing on Children’s Funds of Knowledge - Anita A. Wager, University of Wisconsin

Discussant

• Marta Civil, University of North Carolina