Social Justice Resources
Craig
Russell, University of Illinois Laboratory High School
Powerpoint file from NCTM Regional conference, Sept. 20, 2006
- Lessons and Activities:
- General data sets for descriptive statistics (pdf)
- Linear Transformations of Data: Student handout (MS
Word or pdf) along with spreadsheet (Excel)
- Linear Regressions (Excel
file)
- Experimental design group activity (MS
Word)--although this activity, as printed, includes only one social justice
topic, the format is suitable for "settings"
and "tickler variables" to address any topics.
- Confidence
Intervals (html file; includes instructions and mostly fudged data
on social justice topics)
- Air Pollution lab (MS
Word or html)
- Hypotheses about fairness (MS
Word or pdf)
- Slogan hypotheses (MS
Word)
- Fairness discussion prompts
(pdf)
- "What's My Line"--students choose appropriate tests to
perform in different situations (pdf)
- Models of fairness (html)
- Social justice topics
to consider in Statistics
- Reference Sources
- www.census.gov includes racial, poverty,
and economic data for the U.S.
- Use www.google.com to look up social
service agencies, death penalty information, international poverty and
economic data, affirmative action, genocide, or other social justice topics.
- http://www.seattlecentral.org/qelp
has great data sets, formatted for a variety of platforms and easy to use!
- http://www.radicalmath.org/docs/MathSkills_SocialJustice_Chart.doc
(and other parts of the Radical Math site, which started in April 2006)
offers lesson plans with social justice topics keyed to different curriculum
standards.
- The
Data and Story Library, http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL,
offers lots of data sets, some of which have social justice links.
For example, DASL has a great data set about mortgage refusal rates
by race and income that is a great discussion starter.
- Math
for a Change (Mistrik, Thul) and Math for a World that
Rocks (Thul) are published by the Mathematics Teachers'
Association of Chicago and Vicinity
- An
annotated
bibliography on the web I stumbled across (Jeffrey Bohl)
- Student Work Samples (used with permission)