Recommended Readings for Educators
This document provides a collection of recommended readings that centre Indigenous perspectives and voices. The list will continue to be updated with new titles to support educators in their ongoing learning.
A Noticing Water Project – Respect
This video, created by Jennifer Whiffin and Joy Fast, invites learners to become careful observers of water. Focusing on the principle of Respect, from Dr. Jo-ann Archibald’s Indigenous Storywork, the video encourages learners to understand respect as patience, attentiveness, and care for both human and more-than-human.
A Noticing Water Project – Reverence
This video, created by Jennifer Whiffin and Joy Fast, invites learners to become careful observers of water. Focusing on the principle of Reverence, from Dr. Jo-ann Archibald’s Indigenous Storywork, the video encourages learners to approach water with openness, curiosity, and gratitude.
Stump Stories: A Guided Inquiry
This page presents a guided inquiry called “Stump Stories,” in which learners engage with tree stumps as rich mathematical contexts and then use those observations to pose questions and develop mathematical investigations.
Nature Quests and Numeracy
This page offers a series of “Nature Quests” that invite students to explore mathematics through outdoor and place-based learning. Each quest begins with a short video that encourages students to notice elements of the natural world and then extend their observations into mathematical investigations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pit House Project
In this hands-on project, students explore Secwepemc culture and learn how functionality affects the structure of a pit house.
Mathematics and Journeys Toward Reconciliation
This website was created by Sta’os’ta’on (Carol Bob) to share educational resources for K-12 educators to help implement the Truth and Reconciliations Calls to Action 62 and 63.
Using Seasonal Rounds to Teach Mathematics
Discover how seasonal rounds can transform early math learning. Jessica Naziel shares practical strategies for teaching number sense, fractions, and measurement through nature-based activities.
Exploring Ecosystems and Mathematics
David Barnum shares how his Grade 3 students developed a deep connection to their environment through observation and journaling, aligning with First Peoples principles of learning.
Rethinking Learning Environments: Community as Classroom
