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First Generation Equity Worker: A Journey to Discover Who is Really At-Risk

James Gray General

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In spring of 2013, Community College of Aurora’ s Mathematics Department began the journey to discover how its own practices and beliefs have contributed to inequitable outcomes for students. This session will engage participants in self-reflection using the lessons of the Center for Urban Education’ s Equity in Excellence Project in Colorado. james. gray @ ccaurora. edu

Real-world is messy and mathematics class should reflect that. In this session, participants will look into the world of ethnomathematics and begin to discover the benefits out-of-school mathematics can have within the four walls of the classroom, through discussion and engaging in a mathematics task. margaretha @ susd12. org

As educators, many times we need to encourage our students to attend class so we can work our " magic " on them. The use of games allows ALL students to find a non-threatening environment in which to learn, often in spite of themselves. tannerj @ sunyocc. edu

Participants will engage in tasks they can use to bring the conversation about social justice issues into the classroom. Mathematical ideas of proportions and data / graphs are used as tools to interpret conflicts in the past and their occurrence in current time, as they might impact the students in their classroom. susana. davidenko @ cortland. edu, lmfulmore @ yahoo. com

Come explore how to engage students in explorations that scaffold learning of rigid motions in the coordinate plane using manipulatives and graphing calculators. cthomas11 @ gsu. edu

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