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Math as Text, Rhetoric as Reason:
Can the Humanities Save Math Education?
Abstract
As a student I had always struggled hopelessly with math. I noticed many of my classmates and associates outside of school shared similar experiences with this subject. However, a unique convergence of fortuitous circumstances shed some much needed light on my difficulties with math. Using a creative and communicative approach, I was able to analyze my experience from a rhetorical perspective, which allowed me to see more clearly, not just the problem I was having with math, but the overall problems many seem to have with math education. My findings were astonishing and became the subject of my research for my undergraduate honors thesis.​
Math as Text Introduction Video
Findings
This thesis should initiate a new dialogue about mathematics education through a student-centric retrospective analysis of the circumstances in which I found myself with the subject. I have cited credible sources, pointed to compelling correlations and congruities and offered elucidations on a range of relevant possibilities of using creativity and rhetorical principles in the math education process. My results with this process were very successful, and I make a compelling case for the implementation of interdisciplinary practices in math education. Based on these results, I was asked to present the introduction to my research for the Georgia Council for the Teachers of Mathematics. I plan to continue this research in my graduate studies.
Multimodal Elements from my presentation for the Georgia Council for the Teachers of Mathematics.
A composite comic illustration, Realm of Reason, by Liz Melendez
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