Supporting Black Feminist Mathematics Pedagogies: Beyond Ambitious Mathematics Instruction

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 9:00 am
  In Roundtable Session: Feminist Issues in Mathematics Education (Table 12)

Abstract

Seeking to understand the ways that mathematics curricula can create humanizing and just mathematics experiences, we coded a reform-oriented secondary mathematics curriculum to learn how such curricula can better support antiracist teaching building on Black Feminist Mathematics Pedagogies (BlackFMP; Joseph, 2021). BlackFMP attends to the experiences of individual Black girls while also situating those experiences within a historical context with attention toward their mathematical brilliance. By centering Black girls, who are often marginalized in schools and society, we challenge whitewashed educational values to uncover the inherently racialized and dehumanizing experiences fostered through “neutral” mathematics tasks. We unpack the influence of our positionalities while gaining insights into how to design and revise tasks for increasingly equitable learning opportunities for Black girls.

Authors

• Marlena Eanes Snowden, Vanderbilt University

• Lara Jasien, CPM Educational Program

• Michael R. Lolkus, CPM Educational Program