Virtual Chalk Talk (The Movement to Prioritize Antiracist Mathematics) by Kayla Morse https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8 Capturing questions, comments and wonderings from the TODOS: Mathematics for All paper. en-us 2020-09-09 13:45:24 UTC 2025-10-11 14:44:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png There has been a resurgence of deficit views due to school closure. Students are described as “behind” or “unable to catch up”. This is harmful speak, that does not take into account we are surviving a pandemic. morse5 https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731056137 2020-09-09 13:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731056137 There is a difference between assessment systems designed to provide teachers with information on how to work from students' understanding of new mathematical ideas, and assessment systems used to sort students based on perceived readiness. The latter has no place in mathematics education. morse5 https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731060109 2020-09-09 13:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731060109 Leadership can prioritize supporting teachers to draw on the knowledge of students to develop key mathematical ideas. Some of the powerful schemas students bring to understanding school mathematics are not from school but from their lived experiences, which can serve as anchors into formal school mathematics morse5 https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731061362 2020-09-09 13:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731061362 We cannot say teaching mathematics in an antiracist classroom is too much to expect of ourselves. morse5 https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731063376 2020-09-09 13:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731063376 This is our moment to bring families and schools to new levels of collaboration by explicitly including parents in policy decisions as well as teaching mathematics. morse5 https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731064458 2020-09-09 13:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731064458 It takes time to do the hard self-reflective work of understanding how we are all impacted by racial trauma and then take steps to heal from it – time that our communities need mathematics teachers to take. morse5 https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731065839 2020-09-09 13:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731065839 Teachers have long lamented the variability of skills students bring to the classroom, which reinforced a narrative that what is most important is what students do not know versus what they do. morse5 https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731072658 2020-09-09 13:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731072658 We are complicit in dark suffering in our mathematics classroom in many ways. Ignoring racism, making excuses for why we aren't expecting some students to be good at mathematics, and treating BIPOC children as devoid of knowledge that is valuable for learning mathematics are examples of complicity. If we truly believe that we are moving towards assets-based views of students, we must expand our understanding of what it means to be good at mathematics, make space for alternative ways of knowing and doing mathematics based in the community, and acknowledge the brilliance, both in mathematics and beyond, of BIPOC in our classrooms. We must be explicitly antiracist. morse5 https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731082679 2020-09-09 13:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731082679 In a recent panel, teacher Marylin Zuniga captured a lasting sentiment reflective of our twin pandemics: "You have to make sure that your priorities are with the liberation of Black and brown children."3 In our work as mathematics educators, how do we show every day that our priorities lay with the liberation of Black and brown children? morse5 https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731090186 2020-09-09 13:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/morse5/uohbizjjbax0t1g8/wish/731090186