Centering Indigenous Pedagogies in Math Education: Assessment
In the series Centering Indigenous Pedagogies in Mathematics Education: Assessment, speakers explored Assessment as Ecosystems, Storywork, and Pedagogy, seeing assessment as a living and relational practice that nurtures learners and communities. Through stories from nature and classroom projects, they invited educators to reimagine assessment as interconnected, holistic, and responsive. Sessions included: Session 1: Assessment as […]
David Sufrin
David Sufrin, a professor of education at Vancouver Island University, is doing exciting things with his student teachers to connect mathematics with Indigenous culture. Early in his teaching career, David lived on Haida Gwaii for 10 years and it was there that he first developed his passion for connecting math with community and culture. Teaching […]
Christine Ho Younghusband
Christine Ho Younghusband, now an assistant professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, began her inquiry into ethnomathematics 15 years ago at a time when Indigenous education wasn’t visible in the mathematics curriculum. As a teacher of Math 8, Christine found herself with time and space in the curriculum, so she decided to embark […]
Lyn Daniels
Lyn Daniels, the Director of Instruction, Aboriginal learning for Surrey Schools in BC, sees high school mathematics as a gatekeeper course. That’s why she and her colleagues have created Math Camp, a summer learning program just for Indigenous students across the district. Indigenous students can receive a scholarship to attend this camp that uses Rahael Jalan’s Math, […]
Carolyn Roberts
Carolyn Roberts is an Indigenous faculty lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Here, she talks to us about her work in decolonization and Indigenous pedagogies. How do you support teachers interested in connecting math, community and culture? “Math is a colonial construct and when we think of math we usually are only […]
Carol Bob
Carol Bob, a member of the Wilps Luus in the Gitxsan territory of the Pacific Northwest, has a powerful message for teachers – that teaching math, or any subject, is all about building relationships with students and community. Carol, whose hereditary name is Sta’osta’on (helping hand) is a non-enrolling teacher on the Lax Yip of her Gitxsan […]
Janice Novakowski
Janice Novakowski, a math consultant for the Richmond School District, is a non-Indigenous educator committed to learning about Indigenous worldviews, perspectives, knowledge, and culture. Janice sat on the Ministry’s mathematics curriculum development team and so has insight into ways to embed Indigenous ways of knowing into mathematics teaching and learning. She explains, “they were very […]
Danny Luecke
Revitalizing D/Lakota Mathematics Through Language & Culture Author: Lori Huston, Qiaochu Xu, Ariane Faria, and Cynthia Nicol He found that the community wished to design a sort of reference book where they could return to review what they have learned during the process and use this type of guide for future learning in the community. […]
Webinar Series
Centering Indigenous Pedagogies in Math Education In the series Centering Indigenous Pedagogies in Mathematics Education, leading scholars and educators explored strategies for centering Indigenous pedagogies in mathematics education. Sessions focused on classroom teachers’ examples, ideas, and questions on Indigenous pedagogies, such as Indigenous Storywork, Teaching Mathematics with/from Place and Land, and Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education […]
Webinar Series
Culturally Responsive Mathematics Assessment You’ve likely heard of culturally responsive math education (CRME). But what about culturally responsive math assessment! How can we assess students’ mathematical knowledge and competencies through the practices of CRME? In this series, we explored the nature of culturally responsive mathematics education through connections to land, story, community and mathematics. We looked […]
Webinar Series
Reimagining Mathematics Education In recognition of the responsibility to make mathematics education more relational, land-based, and connected to diverse ways of knowing, we launched Re-imagining Mathematics Education, a four-part series inviting educators to rethink how math is taught, learned, and experienced. Sessions included: Session 1: Teaching and Learning Math through Place/Land In this session, four […]
MEd in MAED Teaching and Learning Mathematics with/in Community
MEd in Mathematics Education The 2nd cohort for The University of British Columbia MEd in Mathematics Education begins September 2022. Our theme is Teaching and Learning Mathematics with/in Community. Fully online and part-time the graduate program explores approaches for developing and living mathematics education that is responsive to place/land and connected to community. Program: offered […]
Beadwork + Mathwork = Community Beading
Community Beading Project with Anishinaabe Artist Nico Williams Beadwork is relational. Mathematics is relational. Nico brought us together to learn beadwork, engage in mathwork, and contribute to a collaborative beading project that deepens awareness of Indigenous presence and futures. Goal: Together we engaged in beadwork and mathwork (over 5 sessions) while contributing to a larger […]