User:Kellyflips/sandbox

This is my sandbox. I can make things bold and also make links

I am planing on working on and contributing to the article Anti-racism in mathematics teaching. one thing that i would like to add is some teaching strategies that will help to create an environment in the classroom that is comfortable for all races and cultures. Such strategies for this include making the classroom feel like a community to encourage students to work together, and teachers educating themselves on the different cultures and the ways that different races learn and respond to certain teaching strategies.

I would also like to explore the ideas behind ethnomathematicsand the ideas behind that. Also, i would  like to explore how teachers can use the ideas and facts about ethnomathematics in order to make their classrooms a comfortable place for everyone. Ethnomathematics has to do with how math is done in different cultures and i think that by understanding how math is similar or different in these different cultures can help teachers to be able to do their job better. Mathematics is also extremely similar in all cultures and math teachers can use this to their advantage as well.

lastly I would like to explore the ideas behind teaching the history of mathematics being taught in the classroom to help students know that math came from many different cultures and countries through the earths history. This can also help with racism in the classroom because it will help both students and teachers alike to not form stereotypes and prejudices about how good or bad a certian culture is at mathematics. It may just simply be that one culture puts more of an emphasis on mathematics than another.Kellyflips (talk) 20:39, 4 March 2013 (UTC)