This 2+2 moment has been a reminder of why I continue to struggle with/in the math ed community. Whenever interpersonal violence accompanies math, too many math folks continue to put math above people. #mtbos #iteachmath 1/

Math classrooms are sites of persistent inequities and alienating students? Let’s play math games! Here’s a 3 Act Task! Don’t hate math, we think math is so much fun 2/

That didn’t do it? Teachers just need to implement better instruction with fidelity! CGI, complex instruction, etc... Then kids will learn to love math, just like we do! 3/

People are engaging in racist/sexist/homophobic attacks over 2 + 2? Let’s talk about all the ways we can interpret 2 + 2. 4/

Scholars have talked about this over and over, and yet, we still find ourselves in a community where content meant to serve people’s needs instead takes precedence. 5/

Maybe it’s an education problem? With ELA folks sure that throwing the right books at the problem will solve it and bilingual ed obsessed with holding kids accountable in both languages as equity. 6/

Education and teaching are the work of serving communities—so why does putting people first continue to seem so impossible?

And when I say #takebackmath this is what I’m talking about—recognizing that people come first and questioning the assumptions/habits/ways of being that keep allowing so many to forget this.