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Fanny Gutiérrez and Yael RodríguezPublished On
2022-12-09Page Range
pp. 21–38Language
- English
2. Let’s Go Shopping
“Let’s Go Shopping” is a landscape of investigation about economic and financial education framed by the sociocritical perspective of mathematical modelling. The landscape developed as a result of discussions among students from a school in Bogotá about high-interest charges and loans. Our aim was to identify possibilities and challenges in the use of a sociocritical
perspective on mathematical modelling when promoting citizenship education. To do this, we addressed the discussions by the students and considered students’ intentions, backgrounds, and foregrounds. The landscape included investigations of families’ economic conditions, as the students related the mathematics classroom activities to their families’ financial issues.
Contributors
Fanny Gutiérrez
(author)Fanny Aseneth Gutiérrez Rodríguez is from Colombia. Her special interests are critical mathematics education, the democratisation of knowledge, and the possible contribution of mathematics to citizen education. She has developed research projects linked to the groups Mescud and EdUtopía at the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia. These groups work with undergraduate mathematics teachers and school students. She has twelve years of experience as a teacher, and for the last six years she has worked as a mathematics teacher in public schools for the Secretary of Education of Bogotá. She is an author of mathematics schoolbooks for Latin America and Spain. She graduated as a mathematics teacher and obtained a Master's degree in education with special emphasis on mathematics—both degrees were awarded by the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.
Yael Rodríguez
(author)Yael Carolina Rodríguez Moreno is from Colombia. Her interest is in critical mathematics education and on relevant social situations that promote reconstruction of social structures. For fifteen years, she has worked in the field of mathematics in both private and public sector. During the last four years, she has been mentoring at the Education Ministry for the Teaching and Academic Excellence program called "Everyone to Learn", where she supports teachers and heads of educational centres from the Secretary of Education of Soacha, Cundinamarca, Colombia. As a part of her academic background, she has a degree in social work awarded by the Fundación Universitaria Claretiana. She also holds a degree in mathematics and a Master's degree in education, with emphasis on mathematics education, awarded by the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. She has a degree in university teaching, awarded by the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada.