Phase 4
My Imagine It is that Mathematics are everywhere and essential to our world. After reading “Stuck in The Shallow End” by Jane Margolis, I feel some of the same issues will or are affecting my students once I start my Imagine IT project.
My students are very similar to the African American students at Westward High School and the Hispanic students at East River High School. While both school’s student bodies are mainly composed of African Americans and Hispanics, respectively, they both struggle to conquer the stigmatic racism that exist on almost every level of the schools’ and students’ lives.
My student almost always come to my classroom saying that they don’t like math. Their opinions are based on what they hear and see at home, outside with their friends, and even what they hear at schools from non- math teachers and administration. They think math is just another class in school to be tolerated, passed, and put into their rearview mirrors.
Most are not even aware that they are part of a vicious cycle that has existed and perpetrated way before they were born. Other peoples’ attitudes, other peoples’ biases, other peoples’ limitations, cannot become theirs.