72.041 - Researching the Design and Delivery of Equity Courses in Mathematics Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium examines the role of undergraduate and graduate courses in advancing equity in mathematics education. The presenters will share four cases that describe self-studies of their own equity and mathematics courses, with each presenter attending to local issues of importance, such as how students’ conceptions of equity developed, how distance education affected equity courses, and how students made meaning of the equity course topics. A discussant who has studied equity and mathematics will comment on the individual papers. There will be multiple opportunities for the audience to participate through providing critiques, feedback, and suggestions for analyses and the courses themselves. This session reflects the authors’ efforts to respond to calls to actively challenging systems of inequity in mathematics education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research in Mathematics Education

Chair

• Nicole Michelle Joseph, Vanderbilt University - Peabody College

Papers

• Negotiating Tensions That Arise in Teaching From a Distance About Issues of Equity in Mathematics - Zandra de Araujo, University of Missouri

• Examining the Role of a Course in Advancing Equity in Mathematics Education - Craig J. Willey, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Examining Undergraduates' Conceptions of Equity and STEM - Sarah Ann Roberts, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Teaching Future Teachers About Playing the Game and Changing the Game - William Carl Zahner, San Diego State University

Discussant

• Victoria M. Hand, University of Colorado - Boulder