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Changing the faces of mathematics : perspectives on indigenous people of North America / editor Judith Elaine Hankes, Gerald R. Fast.

Hankes, Judith Elaine. (Added Author). Fast, Gerald R. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0873535065
  • ISBN: 9780873535069
  • Physical Description: ix, 283 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
  • Publisher: Reston, Va. : National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, ©2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Enhancing mathematics instruction for indigenous American students / Elise Trumbull, Sharon Nelson-Barber, Jean Mitchell -- Teaching mathematics to American Indian students : a cultural approach / David M. Davison -- Standards for effective mathematics education for American Indian students / Ruth Soleste Hilberg ... [et al.] -- Investigating the correspondence between Native American pedagogy and constructivist-based instruction / Judith Elaine Hankes, Gerald R. Fast -- Exploring American Indian and Alaskan native cultures and mathematics learning / Claudette Bradley, Lyn Taylor -- The learning of geometry by the Inuit : a problem of mathematical acculturation / Richard Pallascio ... [et al.] -- Hands-on, student-structured learning for American Indian students / Claudette Bradley -- Culturally relevant assessment for the American Indian student / Libby Quattromani, Joanna Austin-Manygoats -- Student-centered, culturally relevant mathematics activities / Lyn Taylor, Ellen Stevens -- Weaving a multicultural story / Clo Mingo -- Using Native American legends to explore Mathematics / Denisse R. Thompson, Michaele F. Chappell, Richard A. Austin -- Kakaanaq : a Yup'ik Eskimo game / Esther A. Ilutsik -- Native American games and activities / Claudia Zaslavsky -- The mathematical ecology of the Florida Seminole and its classroom implications / James Barta -- Walking in beauty : three Native American elementary preservice teachers rediscover mathematics / James Barta -- Finding cultural connections for teachers and students : the mathematics of Navajo rugs / Joan Cohen Jones -- Native American patterns / Cathy A. Barkley -- Teaching mathematics skills with string figures / Gelvin Stevenson, James R. Murphy -- Ratio, proportion, similarity, and Navajo students / Claudia Giamati -- Symmetry and beadwork patterns of Wisconsin woodland Indians / Bernadette Berken, Kim Nishimoto -- Counting on tradition : Iñupiaq numbers in the school setting / Wm. Clark Bartley -- The Aztec number system, algebra, and ethnomathematics / Luis Ortiz-Franco -- Computation, complexity, and coding in Native American knowledge systems / Ron Eglash -- Yup'ik culture and everyday experience as a base for school mathematics / Jerry Lipka -- Yup'ik border patterns in the curriculum / Esther A. Ilutsik, Claudia Zaslavsky.
Subject:
Mathematics > Study and teaching > United States.
Mathematical ability.
Indians of North America > Education.
Mathematics > Study and teaching > Indians of North America.
Indians of North America > Education.
Mathematical ability.
Mathematics > Study and teaching.
United States.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library QA 135 .P4645 2002 679313 Stacks Available -