Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

II. Perspectives
prptuat inquality or injusti? Dos
to
nutrality assumption limit our aility
th
addrss prolms with mathmatis and
to
improv it? W rvisit this qustion in
to
trms: Brodi Th
Sarh
Dolonisd
Convrsation
th link to th artil “Ys, Mathmatis
Follow
Dolonisd. Hr’s How to Bgin”, y
an
duation profssor Karin Brodi,
mathmatis
sh offrs th following thoughts.
whr
has a prolm with
“Mathmatis
All ovr th world, lak and
divrsity.
mathmatiians rmain rar. Thy
womn
don’t tak mathmatis at highr
simply
lvls as muh as thir whit
aadmi
mal prs. … But maths should and
and
Filds Mdal, stalishd in 1924, has only
Th
awardd to a woman on, in 2014. Hr
n
is Mariyam Mirzakhani, and you an follow
nam
link to larn mor aout hr and hr work.
th
trms: Wird.om
Sarh
Filds Mdal
Mirzakhani
that th profssion and tahing of
Claims
ar gndrd and raializd ar
mathmatis
ing datd. Manwhil, tahrs in
still
lassrooms find that studnts
mathmatis
fl supportd whn th divrsity of
an
studid in th urriulum
mathmatiians
th divrsity in th lassroom, and
rflts
thy an s thmslvs rfltd in
whn
Th movi Hidden Figures (2016), whih
it.
th story of Afrian-Amrian fmal
tlls
as thy wr alld at th
mathmatiians—or
alulators—at NASA during th Spa
tim,
and th raial sgrgation ra, was wll
Ra
y popular ultur.
rivd
IV. Ultimatly, do duators hav a
stion
to tah an anti-disriminatory
rsponsiility
duation, rathr than mrly a
mathmatis
on?
non-disriminatory
ass to its auty and its
dsrvs
vryody should al to
powr—and
ak whn th disiplin is usd to
push
and opprss.” (Brodi 2016)
dstroy
suggsts that studnts’ idntitis
Brodi
important in tahing and larning
ar
Considr hr artil and what
mathmatis.
hav ovrd so far in this stion as
w
What rol dos idntity play in th
1.
and transfr of mathmatial
aquisition
How is th rol of idntity that you idntifid
2.
qustion 1 similar to or diffrnt from th
in
11
For discussion
Decolonizing mathematics
mathmatis
you disuss th following qustions.
knowldg?
rol of idntity in othr AOKs?
dos long to vryody. Evryody
Figure 11.5 Iranian-Amrian mathmatiian Mariyam
Mirzakhani, th only woman to awardd th Filds Mdal
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