Marilyn Frankenstein
Currently, her interdisciplinary teaching at UMass Boston in the College of Public and Community Service involves media literacy, economic literacy, and art and activism. In all these curricula, she uses insights from her criticalmathematics literacy work—including specific content and process ideas about teaching and learning basic mathematics concepts. She also includes ideas developed from reflections on her varied teaching experiences, that underlie any education for social justice. These ideas can be broadly categorized as: respecting students’ knowledge; teaching (lots of) content knowledge; and, reflecting on knowledge. She is currently working on a collection of her articles and curricular materials that will contain professional and political memoir.
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For the last 30 years, Frankenstein has been developing a theoretically based practice in criticalmathematics literacy education. “Reading the World with Math,” for instance, targets teachers working on interdisciplinary math and social studies curricula, providing ways to use math as a tool to interpret and challenge inequities in our society. Her work with A.B. Powell, Ethnomathematics: Challenging Eurocentrism in Mathematics Education, looks at the relationship between culture and mathematics, and she works with an international group of mathematics educators developing this field. Marilyn has spoken about this work internationally, including in South Africa, Mozambique, Brazil, England, Denmark, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and many places in the USA.