Integrating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Evidence-Based Practices to Support Students With Learning Disabilities in a Social Justice Mathematics Lesson

Mathematics can be used to explore issues of social justice, such as equity, diversity, oppression, and poverty. When mathematics is introduced as a tool for understanding the world, educators use mathematical concepts and skills to raise students’ awareness of power dynamics in society and to engage students in social justice work where they become informed citizens who will take an active role in changing the injustice in their world (Berry et al., 2020; Gonzalez et al., 2005; Gutstein, 2006).