I created this list of links related to equity issues in mathematics
education during my student teaching experience. I used web sites
including search engines and links pages to compile this list of
pages. These pages contain information and links to information
about women in mathematics and education, minorities in mathematics and
education, and disabled people in mathematics and education. This
artifact should be used by any pre-service or in-service teacher who
needs a starting point for information concerning equity issues in the
mathematics classroom.
Impact
This artifact supports instructional practice by serving as a resource
for teachers who want to know how to better teach mathematics to women,
minorities, and the disabled, as well as teachers who want to motivate
individuals in these groups to become interested in mathematics,
science, or technology fields. Students could use this
artifact as a basis for a research project on equity issues in
mathematics.
Alignment
In creating this list of links and page descriptions, I identified and
used technology resources whose purpose was to affirm diversity and to
help minorities and the disabled perform well in the mathematics
classroom. This demonstrates NETS-T standard VI-C,
NCATC standards 14.3, 13.2,
and 13.3, and INTASC principle 3
(diverse learners). This artifact could be used as a starting
point for students doing research on equity issues related to
mathematics, or could be used to give assistance and motivation to
minority mathematics students. In this way, this artifact serves
as an application of technology to empower diverse learners (VI-B).
This artifact demonstrates that differences in communication (stemming
from differences in ethnicity, language, and physical abilities) are
issues in the mathematics classroom, thus satisfying INTASC principle 6
for communication.
