As reform mathematics has indicated (NCTM, 2000), encouraging students to develop identities of participation in which they engage in the production and validation of mathematical knowledge, practice proofs for themselves, and appreciate the aims of mathematics and how it is makes mathematics used, accessible to many more students than otherwise in the sense that they are given the means of gaining ownership of it. Becker's own suggestions aim at dismantling teacher authority and finding "voice"--- but this needs to be extended to include the development of an explicit mathematics literacy which will make mathematics accessible to all by connecting voice to agreed that processes of validation. She rightly calls for mathematics taught as a to be process: