Students explore a graph comparing incarceration and crime rates in the US from 1970 - 2000, and make inferences about the relationship (or lack thereof) between these data sets.

Among the many components included in this project are an interactive mapping tool that illustrates the level of segregation in every city, region and neighborhood in the country; a collection of tables which list cities and metropolitan regions by various measures of segregation and political polarization; and much more.

Students develop an understanding about the status of minority-owned businesses in the U.S. and to sort through a large amount of related data to identify information that is most relevant to an inquiry question they write.

The goal of this activity is for students to determine the best combination of phone calls and mailings to maximize turnout at a protest. Students use information about resource limitation to write algebraic inequalities, graph feasible regions, and justify what they believe is the best solution.

Students explore data about incarceration rates from 1925 to 2001 in order to recognize the extreme growth over this period of time.

Mathematics for Social Justice offers a collection of resources for mathematics faculty interested in incorporating questions of social justice into their classrooms. The heart of the book is a collection of fourteen classroom-tested modules featuring ready-to-use activities and investigations for the college mathematics classroom.

Students debate how much of a raise a group of workers deserve based on applying different methods to calculate averages and selecting a method based on the perspective of an assigned group (management, union, etc)

Materials (presentation deck, facilitator guide, etc) from a workshop on gender wealth gap.

In March, 2017, the nonpartisan Prison Policy Initiative published a report called “Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie.” In this lesson, students explore incarceration rates by race and develop/examine statements about this issue using percentages.

Measures for Justice is a website that contains county-level data for most U.S. counties about a wide range of criminal justice topics including arrests, nonviolent arrests that lead to jail/prison, court fees and fines, drug possession, etc. Helpful tool for exploring how the criminal justice system in your community is impacting people.

Website contains nutrition information on every food - both grown and prepared - along with nutrition on meals at restaurants, supermarkets, etc.

In this study, researchers found that in cases involving a White victim, the more stereo-typically Black a defendant is perceived to be, the more likely that person is to be sentenced to death. Includes statistical methodology and graphs to present their conclusions.