Learning together with immigrant students: differences as resources in mathematics classes to fight racism (original) (raw)

Several situations of racism and xenophobia indicate the need for the school to consider means to promote the recognition of diversity and foster inclusive learning practices considering immigrant students. Racism fosters prejudice and intolerance based on stereotypes that can limit the foreground of the students. Fighting racism requires recognizing differences. Meeting amongst Differences in mathematics classes call immigrant students to collaborate, and differences can be resources for investigation in mathematics classes. They can choose themes referring to their own realities. This is related to students' motives for learning mathematics for social transformation.