In Democracy and Mathematics Education Kurt Stemhagen and Catherine Henney develop a way of thinking about the nature and purposes of math that is inclusive participatory and thoroughly human. They use these ideas to create a school mathematics experience that can enhance studentsâ math abilities and democratic potential. They locate mathematicsâ origins in human activity and highlight the rich but often overlooked links between mathematical activity and democratic social practices. Democratic mathematics education foregrounds student inquiry and brings to light the moral dimensions of a discipline that has both remarkable utility and inevitable limitations. For math educators the bookâs humanities approach helps to see the subject anew. For philosophers it provides an important real world context for wrestling with perennial and timely questions engaging democratic and evolutionary theory to transform school math. This alternative approach to mathematics and mathematics education provides a guide for how to use math to make democracy a larger part of school and wider social life. 2021 Winner of the AESA Criticsâ Choice Book Award. . Language: English