Perspectives on indigenous people of North America
By: editor Judith Elaine Hankes, Gerald R. Fast.
Contributors: Hankes, Judith Elaine; Fast, Gerald R.
Series: Changing the faces of mathematics
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; NCTM
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Reston, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Social aspects.; Mathematical ability.; Indians of North America -- Education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Enhancing mathematics instruction for indegenous American students / Elise Trumbull, Sharon Nelson-Barber, Jean Mitchell; title: Teaching mathematics to American Indian students : a cultural approach / David M. Davison; title: Standards for effective mathematics education for American Indian students / Ruth Soleste Hilberg ... [et al.]; title: Investigating the correspondence between Native American pedagogy and constructivist-based instruction / Judith Elaine Hankes, Gerald R. Fast; title: Exploring American Indian and Alaskan native cultures and mathematics learning / Claudette Bradley, Lyn Taylor; title: The learning of geometry by the Inuit : a problem of mathematical acculturation / Richard Pallascio ... [et al.]; title: Hands-on, student-structured learning for American Indian students / Claudette Bradley; title: Culturally relevant assessment for the American Indian student / Libby Quattromani, Joanna Austin-Manygoats; title: Student-centered, culturally relevant mathematics activities / Lyn Taylor, Ellen Stevens; title: Weaving a multicultural story / Clo Mingo; title: 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; title: Native American games and activities / Claudia Zaslavsky; title: The mathematical ecology of the Florida Seminole and its classroom implications / James Barta; title: Walking in beauty : three Native American elementary preservice teachers rediscover mathematics / James Barta; title: Finding cultural connections for teachers nad students : the mathematics of Navajo rugs / Joan Cohen Jones; title: Native American patterns / Cathy A. Barkley; title: Teaching mathematics skills with string figures / Gelvin Stevenson, James R. Murphy; title: Ratio, proportion, similarity, and Navajo students / Claudia Giamati; title: Symmetry and beadwork patterns of Wisconsin woodland Indians / Bernadette Berken, Kim Nishimoto; title: Counting on tradition : Iñupiaq numbers in the school setting / Wm. Clark Bartley; title: The Aztec number system, algebra, and ethnomathematics / Luis Ortiz-Franco; title: Computation, complexity, and coding in Native American knowledge systems / Ron Eglash; title: Yup'ik culture and everyday experience as a base for school mathematics / Jerry Lipka; title: Yup'ik border patterns in the curriculum / Esther A. Ilutsik, Claudia Zaslavsky.