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Global Literacy

Global literacy is the idea of developing the ability of communication, a feeling of belonging, and civic duty in our students. More importantly, we need to help create an understanding and respect for other cultures, religions, and others in general, inside our students. This is imperative because the world is becoming more and more connected each day through the Internet and other global tools. Students need to be exposed to communication with different languages, as well as living, studying, and working in other parts of the world. After developing this skill, students should be able to take critical thinking skills and apply them to all areas, including humanities.

How Can I Incorporate this into Middle School Math?


 * The book “If the World Were a Village” could be used to create math problems using world statistics. This would be great for teaching fractions, probability, etc. Here is a link to the video: []
 * Look at ancient cultures and see how they learned and did math and what they contributed to the area of math we still use today
 * Have students examine Rome, Italy for example via Google Earth or through some kind of demographic search engine and have them identify how many people live per city block to help them see how compact their living quarters are compared to that of the U.S.
 * Choose another cultures money system. Have students have to buy items or make change within that system.
 * Some say that math is a universal language. Explore with students from other countries how this is true and not true.