Flattening the Facebook Curve: Exploring Intersections of Critical Mathematics Education with the Real, the Surreal, and the Virtual during a Global Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Andersson, Annica; Nolan, Kathleen
Titel	Flattening the Facebook Curve: Exploring Intersections of Critical Mathematics Education with the Real, the Surreal, and the Virtual during a Global Pandemic
Quelle	In: in education, 26 (2021) 2, S.24-50 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Andersson, Annica) ORCID (Nolan, Kathleen)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1927-6117
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Social Media; Mathematics Education; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Mathematical Models; Graphs; Visual Aids; Social Problems; World Problems; Videoconferencing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Medien; Mathematische Bildung; Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Mathematical model; Mathematisches Modell; Grafische Darstellung; Anschauungsmaterial; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Weltproblem
Abstract	In March 2020, near the onset of the COVID-19 related lockdowns, quarantine, and isolation measures being taken worldwide, we noticed an increasing number of graphs, diagrams, images and mathematical models relating to the pandemic posted on our Facebook walls. For the purposes of this paper, we selected a number of these Facebook posts to discuss and analyse, through the lens of questions based in critical mathematics education research. Our analyses draw attention to public discourse(s) around mathematics, as well as how numbers, graphs, diagrams, and images are used on Facebook. In our analyses, we first identify the mathematics topic/concept being depicted through the image and, second, how that Facebook post might serve as an artefact of critical mathematics education. In doing so, we challenge the usual separation of mathematics classrooms from the real world and highlight how, in this time of pandemic, life is less real than it is surreal; it is less real than it is virtual. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01