Articulating Critical Numeracy Toward Transformation: A Numeracy of Resistance

• In Event: 45.092 - MTCC Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: 45.092-1 - Critical Inquiry on/With STEM

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to: (1) to elucidate an emerging analytical framework of critical numeracy that works to problematize the teaching and learning of numbers; and (2) to use this framework to propose and enact numeracy so that people understand numbers and numerating as a social and political activity. Drawing from critical mathematics (Skovmose, 2012; Valero, 2004), critical pedagogy (Freire, 2000), and a transformative activist stance (Stetsenko, 2011), this paper situates critical numeracy within socio-cultural literature while attending to the political engagements of teaching and learning. Numeracy must be analyzed from a sociopolitical stance to revitalize a contextualized understanding and principled purpose towards a transformative project with number.

Author

• Atasi Das, Lehman College, CUNY