How Can We Effect Change?: Learning About Advocacy With Ratios and Proportions

Josephine Derrick; Michele Carney; Lindsey Yundt

How Can We Effect Change? Learning About Advocacy With Ratios and Proportions

One Stone High School
Boise State University

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on using civic literacy and advocacy as a lens to develop mathematical concepts. These lessons give students in Grades 6, 7, and 8 the chance to apply proportional reasoning and further their understanding of ratios. Through discussions around advocacy and a particular issue (food insecurity), the corresponding mathematical ideas are grounded in a context that becomes more real and valuable for students.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Modern Math Tasks to Provoke Transformational Thinking
Subtitle of host publication	Grades 6-8
Editors	Joe Champion
Publisher	National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Chapter	4
Pages	85-106
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Print)	978-1-68054-093-2
State	Published - 2025

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How Can We Effect Change? Learning About Advocacy With Ratios and Proportions. / Derrick, Josephine ; Carney, Michele; Yundt, Lindsey.
Modern Math Tasks to Provoke Transformational Thinking: Grades 6-8. ed. / Joe Champion. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2025. p. 85-106.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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