Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
Researchers: Sharon Meyer, Glen Aikenhead, Kelley Cardinal, Danny Sylvestre
and Ted View
2019
Our project is a direct response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) 10th Call to Action, which includes: “developing culturally appropriate curricula” (TRC, 2016, p. 165). The project was designed to better understand how four rural teachers (grades 5-12) can promote culturally responsive experiences for non-Indigenous and Indigenous students by embedding some Indigenous mathematics in their classrooms.
By learning some local Indigenous mathematics, explicitly related to the local Indigenous worldview, non-Indigenous teachers and students develop an understanding of their Indigenous neighbours. And therein lies a tangible act of reconciliation – cross-cultural respect arising from mutual understanding.
> Additional Resources
1. E-A. – Freestyle Looming and Probability
2. E-B.1 – Picario
3. E-B.2 – Water, First Nations Cultures, Statistics
3. E-B.2. Teacher presentation for water poster assignment
4. E-C.1 – The Language of Negative and Positive Numbers
5. E-C.2 – Stick Games and Theoretical-Experimental Probability
6. E-D.1 – Multiplication and First Nations Drumming