Danny Luecke
Revitalizing D/Lakota Mathematics Through Language & Culture
Danny’s work explores connections between language and math, local teachings, and culture. A focus is bridging mainstream math concepts and Indigenous ways of knowing.
Janice Novakowski
Janice is a math consultant for the Richmond School District, is a non-Indigenous educator committed to learning about Indigenous worldviews, perspectives, knowledge, and culture.
Carol Bob
Drawing upon Indigenous pedagogies that focus on experiential approaches to learning and oral ways of sharing teaching and learning, Carol brings math, community and culture together. She takes her students outdoors, not only to develop awareness of mathematics in all kinds of places, but also so that they can build trusting relationships with each other – so that they can learn from each other.
Carolyn Roberts
Decolonization and Indigenous pedagogies.
Carolyn Roberts is an Indigenous faculty lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.
“Math is a colonial construct. We need to rethink how we teach our students about the world around us.”
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
Christine Ho Younghusband
In her project, Math Embedded: A Tribute to Susan Point, students studied the work of Coast Salish artist Susan Point and her work with spindle whorls.
David Sufrin
Connecting mathematics with Indigenous culture.
David Sufrin, a professor of education at Vancouver Island University, is doing exciting things with his student teachers to connect mathematics with Indigenous culture.