This "alternative textbook" integrates pedagogy and content exploration in ways that are unique in mathematics education, provoking new ideas for making mathematics education meaningful to teachers at all levels as well as their students. "Embracing Mathematics...[offers] a theoretical and practical grounding for how teachers might enhance all students' access to powerful mathematical ideas-irrespective of socioeconomic background, home language, and out-of-school affiliations."--Margaret Anne Walshaw, Educational Studies in Mathematics (2010) 73:99-103 "This book is likely to have a substantial impact on the landscape of pedagogical thinking. The pedagogy is a model for how to be engaged in life, in this sense presenting a personal vision that informs more than how to teach."--David Kirshner, Louisiana State University "Embracing Mathematics offers mathematics teachers other possibilities for teaching, in practical and very tangible ways. Simultaneously, [it] challenges the current field and provides possibilities for how these 'different' ways of considering teaching can work effectively in our current situations."--Sarah Smitherman Pratt, University of North Carolina at Greensboro "Embracing Mathematics presents a wealth of educational ideas. It provides lenses for seeing classroom practice as open to fascinating changes. Emerging as a powerful collective achievement, it provides a dialogical opening of post-modern trends in critical mathematics education, seen as practice, as research, and as learning for everybody." Ole Skovsmose, Aalborg University, Denmark "This is a book that helps the reader think about his/her practice. It guides teachers in a quest for teaching methods that will enable students to develop a critical mind, which should be the goal of all mathematics education. But it is also an extraordinarily practical book that along with stimulating ideas provides numerous applications, which are immediately useful in the mathematics classroom."--Corinne Hahn, Advancia-Negocia and European School of Management; President, International Commission for Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching