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Heather A. Bleecker; Jacob Ascencio; Ely Goklish – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
Teaching diverse student populations effectively requires implementing thoughtfully planned and flexible rich tasks and understanding a community's strengths so students can make meaningful connections to mathematics. Using a culturally relevant teaching approach can develop appropriate geometry vocabulary to support students in articulating their…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Story Telling, Teaching Methods
Rioux, Joël; Michie, Michael; Hogue, Michelle; Fisher, Rohan – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
This paper presents an account of a new place-based education initiative using both the mathematical construct of hypothetical learning trajectory and the 3D printing technology or Projection Augmented Landscape Models (PALM), as a tool for learning. The goal of the pilot study is to create bridges between Aboriginal and Western ways of knowing…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Mathematics Education, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
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Lipka, Jerry; Andrew-Ihrke, Dora; Yanez, Eva Evelyn – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2011
This article shows how Yup'ik cosmology, epistemology, and everyday practice have implications for the teaching of school mathematics. Math in a Cultural Context (MCC) has a long-term collaborative relationship with Yup'ik elders and experienced Yup'ik teachers. Because of this long-term ethnographically-oriented relationship, the authors--both…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Numbers, Cultural Context, Epistemology
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Fyhn, Anne Birgitte; Eira, Ellen J. Sara; Sriraman, Bharath – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2011
The Sami are an indigenous people of the Arctic, and through a resolution of the United Nations, Norway is bound to take care of the Sami culture and language. Since 1987 the Sami have had their own curriculum, but they have no mathematics syllabus. In this paper we summarize the legal acts that take care of the Sami culture within the Norwegian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Measurement, Indigenous Populations
Berlin, Donna F., Ed.; White, Arthur L., Ed. – International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education (NJ3), 2011
The chapters in this book reflect the work of science and mathematics educators who have worked for many years at the international level. As members of the International Consortium for Research in Science and Mathematics Education, their work provides readers with issues, models, practices, and research results that have applicability and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Mathematics Education, STEM Education, Educational Innovation
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Davison, David M.; Miller, Kenneth W. – School Science and Mathematics, 1998
Describes a course for teachers of American-Indian students that focuses on the development of culturally relevant activities as part of the science and mathematics curricula. Activities were embedded in a holistic approach to the curriculum and linked the informal science and mathematics of the culture with traditional school science and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Biology, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Secondary Education