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This course provides participants with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for effective, culturally relevant, and equitable mathematics teaching focusing on data-based decision-making. Participants will explore topics such as culture and mathematics education, effective methods for lesson planning, computational thinking, rational numbers, proportional thinking, geometrical thinking, and assessment. Common throughout these topics will be an enactment critical consciousness with particular attention to social and environmental justice. In addition, this course will provide participants with a space for self-analysis and collaborative reflection to analyze pedagogical efficacy and carefully consider how to connect mathematical experiences with students’ lived experiences, thus humanizing mathematics education.