Peer reviewed
Direct linkERIC Number: EJ783766
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Feb
Pages: 6
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
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Poverty: Teaching Mathematics and Social Justice
McCoy, Leah P.
Mathematics Teacher, v101 n6 p456-461 Feb 2008
This article presents three mathematics lessons in a social justice setting of learning about poverty. Student activities include budgeting, graphic data representation, and linear regression, all in the context of connecting, communicating, and reasoning about poverty. (Contains 1 table, 5 figures and 6 online resources.)
Descriptors: Poverty, Regression (Statistics), Justice, Mathematics Instruction, Relevance (Education), Social Problems, High Schools, Secondary School Mathematics, Demography, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Computation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States
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