Equity In Mathematics Education

Introduction: Equity in Mathematics Education, Gabriele Kaiser and Pat Rogers. Part 1 Effecting Change: Intervening with Female Students, Working with Future Teachers, Focusing on Practising Teachers and Educating the Public: The METRO Achievement Program: Helping Inner-city Girls Excel, Denisse R. Thompson; Who Wants to Feel Stupid All of the Time?, Olive Fullerton; Assisting Women to Complete Graduate Degree, Lynn Friedman; A National Network of Women: Why, How and For What?, Barbro Grevholm; Women Do Maths, Claudie Solar, Louise Lafortune and Helene Kayler; Girls and Computers: Making Teachers Aware of the Problems, Cornelia Niederdrenk-Felgner; Common Threads: Perceptions of Mathematics Education and the Traditional Work of Women, Mary Harris. Part 2 The Cultural Context: Comparative Studies and Cultural Perspectives: Culture, Gender and Mathematics, Gurcharn Singh Kaeley; Why Hawai'i Girls Outperform Hawai'i Boys: The Influence of Immigration and Peer Culture, Paul Brandon, Cathie Jordan and Terry Ann Higa; Mathematics and New Zealand Maori Girls, Sharleen D. Forbes; Equal or Different? Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics, Gilah Leder; Gender Inequity in Education: A Non-western Perspective, Saleha Naghmi Habibullah; Gender and Mathematics: The Singapore Perspective, Beinderjeet Kaur; The French Experience: The Effects of De-segregation, Francoise Delon; The Contribution of Girls-only Schools to Mathematics and Science Education in Malawi, Pat Hiddleston. Part 3 Feminist Pedagogy in Mathematics Education: Feminist Influences and Changing the Discipline: Feminism and Strategies for Redressing Gender Imbalance in Mathematics, Roberta Mura; Women's Ways of Knowing in Mathematics, Joanne Rossi Becker; Putting Theory into Practice, Pat Rogers; Gender Reform Through School Mathematics, Sue Willis; We Don't Even Want to Play: Classroom Strategies and Curriculum Which Benefit Girls, Joanna Higgins; Moving Towards a Feminist Epistemology of Mathematics, Leone Burton; Mathematics: An Abstracted Discourse, Betty Johnston; Mathematics: Beyong Good and Evil?, Nancy Shelley.