Promoting Multicultural education
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1. Invite representative (and qualified) guest speakers
2. Use news subjects. Globalize and use news context to introduce material. 3. Remind historical context. Math wasn’t invented by today’s dominant culture. 4. Go out for excursion! (the world is diversified) 5. Promote difference by valuing the specific talent of each student. Have class presentations. 6. Use collaborative exercises in which the contribution of each student is crucial to the success of the project. Examples: portfolios of summary boards 7. Correspond with a foreign class of same level. Partner cities. 8. Discriminate positively: accentuate the historical achievements of women and minorities. 9. Relate arithmetic concepts to the injustice of wealth distribution and subjects of poverty. 10. Endeavor religious-cultural influences on architecture and geometry. Teach history of mathematics, it is highly diversified by nature. |