ABSTRACT

It is late September in Brooklyn, and our high school students are just starting to settle into their classes. Walking down the generic-public-school tiled-hallway, lined with light blue lockers, you turn into my math classroom, where algebra class is about to start. The space is crowded, and racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse students take up nearly every seat in the room. On the board you see: Prepare an Argument for the Statement:

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