Eric Gutstein is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Illinois-Chicago. For the past seven years, he has also been a middle-school math teacher at a Chicago public school. He is a frequent contributor to Rethinking Schools and has written on issues of math equity for numerous academic publications.

"This book makes a fine contribution and should provoke teachers (and not just those in the United States) to consider the political work that is teaching mathematics." --Andrew Noyes, University of Nottingham, England, Mathematical Thinking and Learning

• Series Editor's Introduction to Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics Acknowledgments 1. Social Justice, Equity, and Mathematics Education 2. Education for Liberation: A Framework for Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice 3. Reading the World with Mathematics: Developing Sociopolitical Consciousness 4. Writing the World with Mathematics: Developing a Sense of Social Agency 5. The Relationship of Teaching for Social Justice and Mathematics in Context 6. Co-creating a Classroom for Social Justice: Possibilities and Challenges 7. Lucha is What My Life is About: Students' Voices on Social Justice Mathematics 8. Real Life As We Have Seen It: Parents' Voices on Social Justice Mathematics 9. Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes References