Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Issues
Prisons, Racial Profiling, the death penalty
Poverty, minimum v. living wage,
sweatshops
Housing, gentrification, homeownership
War, defense budgets, military recruiting
Public health, asthma, AIDS
High stakes testing, class size
Environmental racism, pollution, resource
availability
Financial Education
Credit cards, managing debt, paying
for college
Saving/budgeting money, opening
bank accounts
High-cost loans
Filing taxes
The Specifics
1. Start with a strong mathematics
framework.
*Always fit the issues to the math.
2. Talk to your students to decide on
the issue to focus on.