Teaching mathematics for social justice within a Victorian public school for Year Nine mixed ability classes

This study examines a learning task based around inequality that was designed for a year nine mathematics class. The task incorporated mathematical ideas and issues involving social justice to foster the students’ understanding of society and active citizenship while teaching them mathematics. The s...

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Main Author: Voss, Richard Nowell
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/727
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description This study examines a learning task based around inequality that was designed for a year nine mathematics class. The task incorporated mathematical ideas and issues involving social justice to foster the students’ understanding of society and active citizenship while teaching them mathematics. The study discusses the strategies used to teach and promote this initiative, and also critically evaluates the learning tasks to determine their effects on student learning, student engagement and higher order thinking.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-7272017-02-20T06:42:29Z Teaching mathematics for social justice within a Victorian public school for Year Nine mixed ability classes Voss, Richard Nowell This study examines a learning task based around inequality that was designed for a year nine mathematics class. The task incorporated mathematical ideas and issues involving social justice to foster the students’ understanding of society and active citizenship while teaching them mathematics. The study discusses the strategies used to teach and promote this initiative, and also critically evaluates the learning tasks to determine their effects on student learning, student engagement and higher order thinking. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/727 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Voss, Richard Nowell
Teaching mathematics for social justice within a Victorian public school for Year Nine mixed ability classes
title Teaching mathematics for social justice within a Victorian public school for Year Nine mixed ability classes
title_full Teaching mathematics for social justice within a Victorian public school for Year Nine mixed ability classes
title_fullStr Teaching mathematics for social justice within a Victorian public school for Year Nine mixed ability classes
title_full_unstemmed Teaching mathematics for social justice within a Victorian public school for Year Nine mixed ability classes
title_short Teaching mathematics for social justice within a Victorian public school for Year Nine mixed ability classes
title_sort teaching mathematics for social justice within a victorian public school for year nine mixed ability classes
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/727