The Kids are not the Threat

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.01.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. School Demographics
  2. Pedagogical Philosophy
  3. Background And Content Rationale
  4. Why Statistics?
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Content Objectives
  7. Activity 1: Polling As An Experiential Entry Point
  8. Infographic Accessibility Activities
  9. Data Interpretation Activities
  10. Culminating Activity
  11. Annotated Bibliography And Resources
  12. Appendix On Implementing District Standards
  13. Notes

Representation Matters: Math Literacy and Power

Raven Dorman

Published September 2026

Tools for this Unit:

Annotated Bibliography And Resources

The Budget Lab “The Budget Lab.” 2026. https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/how-did-gen-x-and-millennial-parents-manage-their-time.

This resource should be used for Infographic Activity 2 and contains several graphic representations of time use data for teacher and student access.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Review of Daily time use in households with young children in 2024. Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2, 2025. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2025/daily-time-use-in-households-with-young-children-in-2024.htm.

This resource can be used to provide various visual representations of data.

Stukes, Deseree S. “The Infographics of W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 Paris World Fair: A

Form of Activism.” Global Africana Review 8, no. 1 (March 22, 2024): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.17615/5thz-nj82.

Various Du Bois infographics are highlighted here, and the teacher can learn more about the representations.

Review of https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890a_v1-13.pdf

This pdf is the surviving data from the 1890 census, the first year the census included population of Black people in rural versus urban areas.

“NEW DATA RELEASE 2024 2020-21 Civil Rights Data Collection” n.d. https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-student-access-enrollment.pdf.

‌  Students can find up-to-date math enrollment data across demographics.

Illinois.Edu2026. https://tools.extension.illinois.edu/communitydevelopment/survey/.

‌Students can use this site to access questionnaires. Teachers can learn more about conducting community surveys through e-modules.

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