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Mathematics for Social Justice: Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics
About this Title
Gizem Karaali, Pomona College, Claremont, CA and Lily S. Khadjavi, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, Editors
Publication: Classroom Resource Materials
Publication Year:
2021; Volume 66
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-4927-8 (print); 978-1-4704-6574-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/clrm/066
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Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Introduction
- Understanding over- and underrepresentation via conditional probability
- "I need a job!": Analyzing unemployment rates in college algebra and introductory statistics
- A three-part module on poverty
- A gentrification module for quantitative reasoning
- Examining human rights issues through the lens of statistics
- Normal isn’t “normal” when it comes to income
- Get the lead out: The connection between lead and crime
- Policing and the issue of racial profiling
- Measures of income inequality
- Super Size Me: Exploring the nutrition of fast food
- Exploring the benefits of recycling
- The new Jim Crow: A racial checkup for the United States
- Who makes the minimum wage?
- Mandatory drug tests for recipients of public assistance: Mathematical interpretations and implications
- The limits of partisan gerrymandering
- Forecasting the past: Teaching regressions
- Partisan politics and central tendencies
- Mathematics for social justice: Continuing the journey