Within divisive context, the impact of the complexity and density of mathematical language on learning and the demands that it makes is considerable. Class and culture constrain the availability of identities of participation from the outset for some learners, but the extent of the gap between everyday numeracy and mathematical barriers. There is much that is linguistically invisible, and traditional teaching, aided by powerful discourses about the nature of mathematics, compounds this invisibility by obscuring some of the central practices of mathematics. There is also evidence to suggest that it is selective about who it reveals practices to, and that white middle-class boys hold an advantages comparison to other class members in terms of their self-positioning within this dynamic. It is this complex interweaving of factors which generates our relationships to mathematics that an inclusive mathematics pedagogy must address by enabling refiguring of identities and the development of agency. Such a pedagogy needs to: