Eager to teach my final math unit of the year through an equity lens, my instructional coach and I recently co-developed a lesson that integrates the hot media topic of "carding" into our probability unit.
Below is the ppt for the lesson with links to relevant video footage, as well as a handout for students. We wrote this lesson for my Grade 8 class, but it could easily be adapted to Grade 7 or 9. It takes a minimum of 50 mins to do it justice... an hour and quarter would be better.
Below is the ppt for the lesson with links to relevant video footage, as well as a handout for students. We wrote this lesson for my Grade 8 class, but it could easily be adapted to Grade 7 or 9. It takes a minimum of 50 mins to do it justice... an hour and quarter would be better.
| 4_-_carding.pptx |
| handout_for_lesson_4_-_carding.docx |
As well as the Toronto Star's Race Matters and Known to Police material, we also found this excellent website, that examines the impact of race, mental health, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, etc. on "favourable" life outcomes.
As a university educated, gay, white, able-bodied woman, I am both a member of oppressed groups and someone with largely unearned privilege. I can't profess to fully understand the impact of carding on the black community, but I did want to empower my students of all ethnic backgrounds by discussing the issue of carding in particular and the impact of identity in general. My hope is that by making links to what we are studying in math, students would begin to see how logic and reason can be used to positively impact social change.
As a university educated, gay, white, able-bodied woman, I am both a member of oppressed groups and someone with largely unearned privilege. I can't profess to fully understand the impact of carding on the black community, but I did want to empower my students of all ethnic backgrounds by discussing the issue of carding in particular and the impact of identity in general. My hope is that by making links to what we are studying in math, students would begin to see how logic and reason can be used to positively impact social change.
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