Why Mathematics (Education) was Late to the Backlash Party: The Need for a Revolution

Abstract

ROCHELLE GUTIÉRREZ is Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820; email: rg1@illinois.edu. Her research interrogates the roles that race, class, language, and gender play in teaching and learning mathematics, creative insubordination in teaching, and new possible relationships between living beings, mathematics, and the planet. COMMENTARY