Abstract
In the epigraph above, Hilary Janks refers to the “butterfly effect,” a metaphor for interdependence she has used in her research in 2005. The metaphor is based on the words of meteorologist Edward Lorenz (1975) who argued that a single flap of a butterfly wings in Brazil could set off a tornado in Texas. This chapter begins by drawing on the fundamental critical literacy ideas of Allan Luke and Hilary Janks, identifying areas in which the two scholars are similar and different, in an attempt to argue why critical literacy is needed now more than ever in Ontario classrooms, particularly in mathematics.
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Ciobanu, M. (2016). Mathematics is a Powerful Tool. In: Cooper, K., Anwaruddin, S.M. (eds) Student Voice. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-408-4_5
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