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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.
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.
Weaving a Quarter Bag Instructions
Anjeanette Dawson shares the instructions for weaving a quarter bag that can be adapted to any grade level.
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.
Tluuwaay ‘Waadluxan Mathematical Adventures
Tluuwaay ‘Waadluxan Mathematical Adventures offers fresh perspectives on math through land-based learning.
The Paper Drum Project
Megan Hanna's Paper Drum Project merges math and culture, as students explore geometry and measurement while learning about Indigenous drumming traditions.
The Journey of a Lesson
Dr. Christine Younghusband, Max Sterelyukhin, and Jared Hamilton share their journey as non-indigenous mathematics educators on embedding local Indigenous content, First Peoples Principles of Learning, and Indigenous worldviews into their secondary classrooms utilizing BC's math curriculum.
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.
Symmetry, Reflections, and Translations Inspired by Haida Art
Supernatural Wasco and Proportion
Leighann Rodger’s seven-session lessons blend Haida Supernatural Beings with math. Students explore fractions and proportions by creating models of the supernatural being Wasco.
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.
Squamish Weaving and Mathematics
Emily Gresham shares her experience from learning and collaborating with Anjeanette Dawson, a Squamish Weaver. Emily details seven outcomes she saw within her grade 6/7 classroom and school community when introducing Squamish weaving.