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IFL Staff Blurb
We thought we would end the 2022-2023 school year IFL Recommends with this Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez podcast on rehumanizing mathematics. The IFL was fortunate enough to have Rochelle speak to us about the dimensions in equity back in 2019. We are delighted to share some more of Rochelle’s words of wisdom related to humanizing mathematics in this podcast.
Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez on Rehumanizing Mathematics
Podcast with Alec Patto
“I have an abuela rule in my classes and in my work, and the abuela rule is this. We need to be able to communicate with each other in ways that are understandable to our grandmothers. I am not saying that we need to water down or distill or somehow dumb down the ideas that we have, but our abuelas carry such wisdom in this world. We do not want to waste their time with jargon when we can just say things simply.”
– Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois
In the podcast, Dr. Gutiérrez talks about reconnecting math to our lived experience, and sharing the world’s rich history of different approaches to mathematics with kids.