As we move forward into the 21st century, multiculturalism becomes increasingly relevant to achieving a truly global society. Dr. James A. Banks defines the meaning of multicultural education and its potential impact on society when it is truly integrated into American classrooms. In his lecture, Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice: Education in a Global Age, Banks (2006) defines five dimensions of multicultural education that serve as a guide to school reform when seeking to implement multicultural education (Banks 2010). The goal of multicultural education is to encourage students to value their own cultures and the diverse cultures of those around them without politicizing their differences but rather, as Banks passionately explains in his lecture, “actualizing the ideals affirmed in the Constitution” ( 2006). form “civil, moral and just communities”. The first of the five dimensions of multicultural education is content integration. Teachers can identify exemplary people and information from different cultures and integrate it nontrivially into the curriculum so that students can learn about the effects of all cultures on the content they are studying. At the beginning of the school year in my Algebra class I do a short activity on the history of numbers. Students learn that we currently use the Arabic number system but that many other number systems existed in the history of numbers. Let us explore and try to represent quantities using various number systems such as Roman, Mayan, Chinese and Egyptian number systems. Students are able to see the contributions made to mathematics by people from different cultures. The process of building knowledge, the second dimension of multicultural education, requires t... middle of paper... and administrators too: they must unite in a common project to weave recognition of diverse diversity into all aspects of student life cultures and social groups. Dr. Banks (2010) explains that latent curriculum is “defined as that which no teacher explicitly teaches but which all students learn.” These are the lessons that students remember long after they leave the school system. References Banks, J. A. (2006). Democracy, diversity and social justice: education in the global age. Podcast by university faculty teachers. Retrieved May 9, 2012, from http://www.uwtv.org/video/player.aspx?mediaid=1580263790Banks, J. A., & McGee Banks, C. A. (2010). Multicultural education: problems and prospects. (7th ed.) Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Rothstein-Fisch, C., & Trumbull, E. (2008). Cultures in harmony. Educational leadership, 6 (1), 63-66.