Problems with a Purpose
The CEMC’s “Problems with Purpose” offers real-world math challenges, including Cree language puzzles, for grades 4-12.
Building a Community of Inquiry through Indigenous Storywork Principles
Annie Simard, Sandra Fox, along with other teachers integrated Indigenous stories into math instruction. Guided by Indigenous Storywork, they created engaging math experiences.
A Fomly Adventure: A decolonizing redesign of Foundations of Mathematics 12
Conventional teaching methods like lectures and tests have been replaced with collaboration and personalization through projects around ecotourism, and traditional root gardens.
Place-Based Math Meets Indigenous Storywork
Jess Kyle’s project merged Indigenous Storywork and place-based math. By incorporating Sto:lo stories and territory story mats, students explored math through their surroundings, guided by their own curiosity.
Bridging Worlds – Bringing Math to the Powwow
This lesson uses Powwow data to teach mean, median, mode, and range through circle graphs. Students explore data collection and central tendency.
Indigenous Math Connections – David Sufrin
David Sufrin highlights how student teachers integrated Aboriginal culture and math through projects like spearfishing and berry picking. These activities involved counting, estimating, graphing, and language development.
Grade 8 Math Questions
Paul Beland created a set of problem-solving questions to follow chapters one through eight in the grade 8 mathematics curriculum.
Math For Language Development
Sealaska Heritage Institute Website
Math First Peoples 8/9
The Math First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide empowers BC educators to transform math learning through Indigenous perspectives, aiming to boost student success.
Tluuwaay ‘Waadluxan Mathematical Adventures
Tluuwaay ‘Waadluxan Mathematical Adventures offers fresh perspectives on math through land-based learning.