Connecting Land, Place, and Community
Alli and Janice worked with two primary teachers and their classes to create learning experiences that encouraged students to think about mathematics through connections to land, place, and community.
Numeracy Pen Pal Project
Alexis, Heather, and Kristin have collaboratively developed a math-focused unit incorporating Indigenous ways of Knowing and observations of the natural world. Their project connected Alexis and Heather’s classes through a penpal format, culminating in a land-based field trip.
Every Pattern Tells a Story
This NSF-funded research project engaged in story-sharing sessions with former students, friends, and community members to uncover the stories behind assignment contributions, enriching classroom learning and highlighting connections between algebra and Indigenous identity.
Champagne Raccoons
Grounded in Indigenous Storywork, this task draws on the story of champagne-coloured raccoons from Saysutshun, an island provincial park in the territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation near Nanaimo. The story invites students to wonder, make connections, and explore mathematical ideas.
Circle of Learning – Indigenous Book Club
Chelcy and Monica led a project focused on the 4 R’s of Indigenous Storywork and BC math competencies. Their Circle of Learning Book Club explored Richard Wagamese’s The Animal People Choose a Leader through Zoom sessions and an in-person dinner gathering.
Celebrate Indigenous Math Culture
Johanne and Brandi organized a math mentorship day at a local high school, creating opportunities for students, teachers, and staff to engage with Indigenous math and logic games in a positive and meaningful way.
Mentorship in Action
Sam’s Grade 6/7 class guided Kindergarten buddies, inspired by Jen Whiffin and Joy Fast’s Outdoor Math and Indigenous Storywork principles of Reciprocity and Respect.
Indigenous Garden Project
This project merged math and Indigenous knowledge through a permaculture garden design. Students applied measurement concepts while exploring their land and culture.
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.
Indigenizing Minecraft through a Numeracy (STEAM) Lens
embark on a historical journey to a coastal village where students collaborate with Elders to learn sustainable winter preparation. Armed with this ancestral knowledge, students are tasked with designing their own thriving community
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.
What Is The Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Cedar Trees?
Inspired by What is the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? Students explore their environments mathematically, culminating in a story as the finished product.
Estimating Tree Heights
Nikki demonstrates how ethnomathematics connects math to culture and everyday life. By incorporating Indigenous knowledge, she enhances student engagement and understanding. An included “Estimating Tree Height” activity brings learning outdoors.
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.
Hello Humpback
This lesson blends Indigenous stories and math. By exploring “Hello Humpback” written by Roy Henry Vickers, students connect with Indigenous Storywork and First Peoples’ Principles of Learning while learning number concepts.
If Instead of a Person
This lesson blends Indigenous stories and math. By exploring “If Instead of a Person” written by Courtney Defriend students connect with Indigenous Storywork and First Peoples’ Principles of Learning while learning about number concepts and computational fluency.
Jingle Dancer
This lesson blends Indigenous stories and math. By exploring “Jingle Dancer” written by Cynthia Leitich Smith, students connect with Indigenous Storywork and First Peoples’ Principles of Learning while learning about number concepts and practicing computational fluency.
The Girl and the Wolf
This lesson blends Indigenous stories and math. By exploring “The Girl and the Wolf” written by Katherena Vermette, students connect with Indigenous Storywork and First Peoples’ Principles of Learning while learning about addition, subtraction and measurement concepts.
Peace Dancer
This lesson blends Indigenous stories and math. By exploring “Peace Dancer” by Roy Henry Vickers, students connect with Indigenous Storywork and First Peoples’ Principles of Learning while learning about properties of objects and shapes, equations and transformations.
What’s the most beautiful thing you know about horses?
This lesson blends Indigenous stories and math. By exploring “What’s the Most Beautiful Thing You Know about Horses” written by Richard Van Camp students connect with Indigenous Storywork and First Peoples’ Principles of Learning while learning about patterns, fractions, and measurement.
Cloudwalker
This lesson blends Indigenous stories and math. By exploring “Cloudwalker” by Richard Van Camp students connect with Indigenous Storywork and First Peoples’ Principles of Learning while learning about number concepts, and change in quantity.
Cloudwalker
This lesson blends Indigenous stories and math. By exploring “Cloudwalker” by Richard Van Camp students connect with Indigenous Storywork and First Peoples’ Principles of Learning while learning about patterns, and number concepts.
Pit House Project
In this hands-on project, students explore Secwepemc culture and learn how functionality affects the structure of a pit house.
Storying the Land through Mathematics and Storywork
This essay, written by Dahlia Benedikt examines how six 14-year-olds and two facilitators explored how stories shape how we understand our environment and how mathematics could be used to understand the past and present activities and stories of High Park.
MMIWG on Unit for 2D-3D, Review Graphs, and Finance
This resource features a five-day integrated lesson on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) from a mathematical perspective and social justice lens.
Learning Michif & Cree through Elementary Math
Learn Michif and Cree through this printable counting 1-10 activity book
Math Can Have Meaning
In this activity students engage in a 3-Act-task surround Indigenous Storywork utilizing the Okanagan Legend “How Turtle Set the Animal Free”.
Exploring Elapsed Time Through Indigenous Story
Students explore elapsed time through Indigenous Storywork principles and the book “The First Salmon Run” by Rhonda Girard.