Product Information:
Price: $25.95
Format: Softcover
Audience: Teachers, Teacher Educators, Policymakers, Administrators
Pages: 283
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Copyright: 2002
ISBN: 978-0-87353-506-9
Order #: NCTM-02-01

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Changing the Faces of Mathematics: Perspectives on Indigenous People of North America

Edited by: Walter Secada

This edited volume is one in a series of six focused on teaching mathematics in ways that are culturally responsive. The 25 chapters address those teachers, administrators and principals, curriculum supervisors and program developers, and ethnomathematicians and researchers who are concerned with the theory and practice of mathematics instruction for the indigenous peoples of North America. WestEd authors Elise Trumbull and Sharon Nelson-Barber and their coauthor Jean Mitchell contribute the opening chapter to this volume, updating their ongoing learning about the education of indigenous students in the continental United States, Alaska, and numerous Pacific islands. They discuss similarities between reform and indigenous pedagogies, provide examples of ethnomathematics in indigenous cultures, and describe the development of instructional examples that draw on ethnomathematical knowledge from three groups: Iñupiaq, Yup’ik, and Navajo. Several other chapters also address the theoretical undergirding of ethnomathematics; another group of chapters include classroom lessons and activities that elementary and middle school teachers will find useful; and a final group of chapters focus on middle school and high school topics.