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Title: Building Community Around Storytelling
Digital Mathematics Storytelling is a construct I’ve used to elicit mathematics stories within multiple communities in multiple countries. The framework, based on the idea counter-storytelling, has come from multiple iterations of digital mathematics storytelling workshops from youth and mathematics teachers. In this paper, I reflect on what I’ve learned about the power of storytelling for connecting mathematics to community, cultural, and family identities. But I have also seen how digital media can become weaponized, particularly in the ways it has created a new form of consumerism. In this paper, I make the argument that digital mathematics storytelling not only helps to elicit narratives around mathematics identity, but also helps forge a new critical digital media literacy within our field of mathematics education.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2533089
PAR ID:
10616313
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Editor(s):
Beswick, K; Morony, W
Publisher / Repository:
International Congress on Mathematics Education
Date Published:
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Digital Math Storytelling Mathematics Education Story Counter Story Community
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Sydney, Australia
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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