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A Data Processing Lesson for Statistics about AIDS

Students explore global data about AIDS, and apply statistical methods to draw inferences about this global health issues.

An Equitable Approach to Addressing Food Deserts

Given 3 communities on a coordinate plane - one White, one Black, one Latinx - and their proximity to healthy food, students use the distance formula and their own ideas about equity to determine the location for building a new grocery store.

Banking Options in Low-Income Communities

Students explore how exploitative financial institutions are prevalent in low-income communities, and the mechanisms they use to take advantage of people. Students investigate compounding interest on loans.

Banking on a Good Turn

Students research the economies of countries in the Group of 8 and present how their economies have changed over the past five years and how the relationships among these countries affect each other in light of world events. Finally, they individually reflect on how the war with Iraq has impacted the economy of one of the Group of 8 members.

Bills, Bills, Bills: A Real Life Mathematical Experience

This unit integrates literature, music, and cooperative learning into middle school mathematics. Students will learn to use decimals, percents, and make predictions about their own spending.

Black Disenfranchisement

Students construct histograms using data about Black disenfranchisement rates

Born on Third Base

Students explore how wealthy Americans acquired their fortunes using a baseball analogy of the advantages of starting on third base.

Building a Community Garden

In this unit, students evolve their understanding of perimeter, area, and similarity, particularly how they can be practically applied, while developing a better understanding of issues of hunger and poverty in our community.

Bureau of Justice Statistics Data Collection

Broad range of data which can be disaggregated by factors including geography, age, race, gender, covering topics including crime, incarceration, violent crimes, school arrests, prisons, etc.

Cancer Facts & Statistics

The regularly updated Facts & Figures website present the most current trends in cancer occurrence and survival, as well as information on symptoms, prevention, early detection and treatment. Data can be disaggregated by race, gender, geography, and other factors.

Casualties from Iraq War

Students explore monthly data from a 1-year period when the US was at war in Iraq, and use different methods to calculate averages based on the desired outcome from three assigned perspectives.

Center for Disease Control Data

Comprehensive website with searchable data sets about a wide range of health-related topics including asthma, life expectancy, tobacco use, diabetes, food-borne illness, etc.

Color of Wealth Infographic

This infographic aims to increase our understanding of the roots of racial economic inequality and of the harm caused by racist policies implemented throughout the history of the United States.

Community Voices Heard (HANDOUTS)

In this unit, students construct, distribute, and analyze surveys about social justice topics impacting their lives. This version contains student handouts; search for "Community Voices Heard (TEACHER)" for the lesson plans.

Community Voices Heard (TEACHER)

In this unit, students learn how to construct, conduct, and analyze surveys. They identify a relevant social justice issue impacting their community, and through the survey process students develop a set of recommendations for how to address injustice in their lives.

Comparing National and State College Tuition Increases

Students interpret a graph representing rising college tuition costs, then collect data on college tuition changes in the United States by region and create their own graphs.

Cost of Smoking

Students estimate the amount of money a non-smoking teen spends in a week, a month, and a year, and compare it with the expenses of a teen who smokes one, two, and three packs a day. They then research other reasons that teens should not smoke, and create an ad campaign geared toward young people emphasizing the financial and health benefits of not smoking.

Cost of war in Iraq: How does it effect my community?

This activity allows students to investigate the cost of the war in Iraq and compare it with the cost of addressing both local and global problems. Students will understand how much money is being spent on the war, gain mathematical literacy, and conduct internet research so that they can educate themselves about the war.

Credit Cards 101: The Plastic Peril

In this unit students explore the exploitative dimensions of the credit card industry. They develop a deeper understanding of how credit and credit cards function in order to avoid being taken advantage of and going deep into debt.

Data from the COVID Tracking Project

The COVID Tracking Project is one of the most comprehensive collections of data about the COVID pandemic -- for example, incidence, rates, and impact by location, age, race, gender. Contains both raw and analyzed data.

Data from the U.S. Census

Website of the U.S. Census. Contains current and historic data, visualizations, research, reports, and other information based on census surveys.

Developing Public Opinion Polls to Report Views on Important Issues

Students learn about polling by participating in polls and then creating, conducting, and analyzing their own.

Driving While Black/Brown

Students use mathematics to analyze racial profiling data and compare actual data to results of a probability simulation about racial profiling. This then becomes an entry point into a discussion about whether racial profiling is a real issue, is racism a factor, why does it occur, and if it’s a problem, what can one do about it.

Education Can Help Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap, but Structural Solutions Are Needed to Close It

This paper looks into wealth held by different racial groups based on educational attainment, and shows that gaps not only persist across all educational levels but seem to get worse with higher attainment. Paper makes argument that deeper structural solutions are needed in addition to educational opportunities.

Exploring Data about Brooklyn

In this activity, students look for correlation among different data about Brooklyn neighborhoods including unemployment, household income, AIDS rates, etc. It can serve as a model for similar activities in other communities.