Critical Mathematics Pedagogy:
a mixed-methods explanatory transformative study of mathematics in community colleges
Problem
Need for MM
Audience
Low-income and minority students are not succeeding in mathematics
Gather outcomes data, but give voice to students
Faculty
Students
Purpose
Best practices for faculty working with low-income and minority students
Build framework for students to improve their communities using mathematics
Philosophical / Theoretical Foundations
Bourdieu: Cultural Reproduction
Freire: Critical Pedagogy
Methods
Methods
Use exploratory design by collecting quantitative data initially to select a representative group of students who successfully completed the course that used critical pedagogy. Following, the students will be interviewed using multiple rounds of coding
quant +
Gathering of grades and finding successful students (C or better) for qualitative data.
QUAL
Interviews with students about critical pedagogy content and how it affected their mathematical learning and overall success in the course.
Implications
Results will be shared with faculty for best practices. Results will be shared with students as a framework for transforming their communities with mathematics, but also how to be a successful student.