| Coordinator: | Wai Yan Pong |
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| Office: | NSM A-125 (310) 243-2443 |
| Date: | 12/03/08 |
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| Speaker: | Kyndall Brown (UCLA) |
| Title: | Culture, Identity, and Mathematics: Creating Learning Spaces for African-American Males |
| Abstract: | African-American male students face a multitude of difficulties in schools including high suspension and expulsion rates, higher referral rates to special education, and under-enrollment in advanced classes. African-American males tend to perform at lower levels in mathematics and science. An experiment was designed to determine how identity development, culturally relevant pedagogy, and the use of mathematical models support the development of mathematical understanding in African-American males. The findings indicate that when African-American male students were given an opportunity to build their mathematical proficiency, they were able to develop identities that positively influenced their participation in mathematical tasks. |
| Light refreshments will be served in NSM A-115 30 mins before the talk. All are welcome. |
| Upcoming talks | Fall 2008 |
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| Previous talks | 2008--, 2005--2007 , 2002--2004 |
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