This session explores how co–learning data practices can ground mathematics and statistics in humanity. Drawing from a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) initiative, where youth and adults used CODAP to explore data stories, we invite participants to engage with video excerpts illustrating relational and culturally sustaining approaches to data literacy. Using the Notice, Wonder, Feel, Act, Reimagine (Kahn et al., 2022) framework, participants will reflect on what it means to learn alongside youth and reimagine data exploration as an intergenerational co-learning practice.
Mathematics as a school subject is a cultural product developed by generations of mathematicians. The conventions we teach—the symbols we privilege, the names we memorialize, and the algorithms we call “standard”—are culturally constructed and historically exclusive. By uncritically reproducing these conventions, we risk reinforcing an epistemology that denies students’ cultural and intellectual identities. This session introduces a framework that organizes mathematical conventions into seven categories and invites participants to acknowledge their origins, examine their rationales, and explore non-Western alternatives through interactive tasks that involve unpacking, breaking, and reimagining familiar conventions in mathematics teaching and learning.
Many people feel unwelcome in mathematics – a regrettable, but not inevitable, circumstance. In this session, I will share the goals and videos from a project documenting adults’ lived experiences of mathematics. In these videos, participants share how they engage in mathematics in their lives and how these experiences relate – or do not easily relate – to their memories of school “mathematics”. Many participants are members of historically marginalized groups. Session attendees will be invited to reflect on their own experiences and to consider how these stories could help to catalyze collaborative and sustained work to center humanity in school mathematics.
I have recently founded the Coalition for Mathematics for Human Flourishing! We will share people's lived experiences of mathematics (in all its forms) and work with individuals, schools, and systems to transform school mathematics experiences for young people. @CMathsHuman on... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT Royal CDEF
