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Intended activity outcome: To increase content area teachers’ awareness about the possibilities for integrating ethics.

Audience: Middle and high school level faculty

Activity Steps:

1. Review the definition of ethics as “the study of what is right and what is good.” Discuss teachers’ understanding of the broadest aims of education. Ask:

• Beyond basic competencies, what’s the purpose of school?
• Based on the definition we just discussed, what do ethics have to do with this purpose?

2. Small Group Work: Have teacher’s divide into “mixed” groups–with different content areas represented in each group. Ask them to discuss this question:

• Do you think every content area has a connection to ethics?
• If so, provide examples for each content area represented in your group.
• If not, provide examples for why not.

3. Keep participants in small groups. Explain that math teachers often have a heard time connecting their lessons to ethics because much of their work is around specific instruction with no room for interpretation, like Algebra. Ask each small group to brainstorm the ethical dimensions of:

• Accounting
• Financial services such as credit cards and other loans
• Rounding in advertising, and other “small print” aspects
• Statistics
• Gender in math-related fields

4. Have each group choose their three favorite ideas from #3 and de-brief as a large group.

5. Ask everyone to be on the lookout for more examples of the ethical dilemmas of math. Ask for these examples to start your next meeting.

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