Abstract
Macroeconomic forces, globalization, transnational capital flight, and massive migration have global and local reverberations that affect our classrooms, teachers, communities, and students. In particular, teaching and learning mathematics in multiple language contexts is affected by these broader dynamics. Thus, politicizing the discussion around language usage is not a choice mathematics educators have the luxury of making-circumstances dictate that for us. This brief commentary responds to the six articles in the present volume and situates them within the larger sociopolitical context we live in today.
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Gutstein, E. Multiple language use and mathematics: Politicizing the discussion. Educ Stud Math 64, 243–246 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-006-9063-z
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