Slide deck containing graphs, data, quotes, and information about racial and gender wealth gaps.

Reflecting the World: A Guide to Incorporating Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education is a guide for mathematics teacher educators interested in incorporating equity concerns into their teaching. The book draws on the authors’ research and experience integrating issues of equity, diversity, and social justice into their work as mathematics teacher educators of preservice and inservice preK‐9 teachers.

In this unit, students are introduced to algebra through the context of nomadic salt traders in North Africa. Students create families based on a set of constraints, and equip their families with the necessary supplies to make the long journey across the Sahara.

Students work with real data about city and school demographics and determine the extent to which the schools are racially segregated by developing their own dissimilarity index and visual representations of the data.

Students compare data/graphs of racial composition of U.S. and incarcerated populations to explore existence and causes of racial disparities.

In Jena, Louisiana, a young black man was convicted by an all-white jury of attempted murder after a fight that occurred because a noose had been found on campus. This project investigates the probability of an all-white jury being selected, as well as deeper issues related to the case of the Jena 6.

National dataset of school-based discipline data. Can be disaggregated by race, geography, student behavior, etc.

Students use algebra and statistics to explore poverty -- how do we define and measure poverty? who is poor in our country? what is the relationship with poverty and academic achievement? what can be done?

A concise and powerful mini-documentary (~15 min) about the causes and manifestations of the racial wealth gap in the U.S. It's engaging, fast-paced, and draws on interviews, visualizations, historical footage, and animations to address the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, redlining and housing discrimination, subprime mortgages, and other forms of systemic oppression and equity. Free on Youtube.

In this activity students explore how the cost of rent in different Brooklyn neighborhoods has changed, and draw conclusions about how gentrification has impacted various communities.

Students explore school segregation with data about Cincinnati area schools, and more broadly touch on racial inequities and the perception of different racial groups about them.

This unit contains a collection of introductory statistics activities that help students apply basic data analysis, graphing, drawing inferences, etc. Search for Statistics Unit, Part I (Teacher Guide) for lesson plans, and search for Part II (student handouts and teachers guide) for more activities.