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Marilyn Frankenstein

Professor Frankenstein combines her teaching with activism. For example, she participated in an anti-Gulf War demonstration in San Francisco in January 1991, along with three friends and colleagues in mathematics education: Professor Marcelo Borba, University of Rio Claro, Brasil; Professor Arthur B. Powell, Rutgers University, Newark , NJ and co-author with her of various books and articles; and, Professor Marty Hoffman, Queens College, City University of New York. They were in San Francisco that January to present a series of talks they had organized for the Mathematics Association Annual Meeting. Then, the United States started the Gulf War. Along with other mathematics educators in the Critical Mathematics Educators Group (founded by Arthur Powell, Prof. Frankenstein, and another colleague, Professor John Volmink, University of Durban, South Africa), they organized a group of mathematicians from the conference to participate in this anti-war march. They held signs, which read “Use Math against Poverty and Disease, Not for War.”

Using math for peace and justice is one of the central themes in the undergraduate courses in Quantitative Reasoning that Professor Frankenstein has been teaching at CPCS since 1978. She stresses how reasoning quantitatively about public and community issues is connected to using math to work for justice and to work against injustice. More details, including specific examples from her curriculum, are discussed in “Quantitative Reasoning in the CPCS Curriculum.”

 

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