Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Equity in Mathematics Education

Drawing on the conference theme of looking back and looking ahead, in this paper I first look at the placement of equity throughout PME-NA as a way to set the stage for where to go next. I then focus on aspects of my work on the affordances and tensions around out-of-school and in-school mathematics to discuss equity as opportunity to participate in mathematically rich and socioculturally grounded experiences. I argue for the need to develop classroom environments where students' mathematical funds of knowledge are brought to the forefront but also where students can use their cultural ways of being and acting as resources for their learning of mathematics. [For the complete proceedings, see ED606531.]