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FNMI Math Workshop

Join Sharon Meyer for a workshop delving into the impact of worldview on mathematics understanding, using FNMI worldviews to enhance mathematics concepts. Explore pre-contact materials, ethnomathematics, medicine wheel connections, and contemporary FNMI math themes.

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FNMI Math Workshop

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  1. TAWOW FNMI Math Workshop December 5, 2013 Presented by Sharon Meyer NESD FNMI Assisted by Katie White NESD CIA Power Point formatted by Karen Holowka C.R. V.P.

  2. Big Questions • How does worldview impact our understanding of math? • How does our use and understanding of math reflect our worldview? • How can FNMI worldviews build understanding of mathematics concepts for everyone?

  3. Agenda

  4. Group Brainstorm • What materials were available to First Nations and Inuit people pre-contact?

  5. Early Contact

  6. Possible Responses • Rocks • Sticks • Leaves • Feathers • Hides • Antlers • Bones • Clay • Plant dye • Berries • Shells • Sinew • Bark

  7. Reflections of pre-contact Fni Math “Constructivism, ethnomathematics, and teaching through an inquiry approach are supportive of a holistic perspective to learning” Ministry of Education 2011 Ethnomathematics – relationship between mathematics and cultural anthropology. It is used to translate earlier forms of thinking into modern-day understandings

  8. Rock paintings

  9. RoCKPaintings

  10. Robe Paintings

  11. Robe paintings/Hide stories

  12. Robe paintings/ Hide Stories

  13. Parfleche

  14. Parfleche

  15. clothing

  16. Clothing

  17. Birch bark biting

  18. Birch Bark Biting

  19. Medicine Wheel Connections Games

  20. Game Needs: • Game name • Game materials • Game players • Game rules • How is game won?

  21. Games

  22. Stick-dice variations (pair activity) • Each pair uses their instructions for a Stick-Dice game. • Each pair prepares the necessary materials. • Practice the game. • Present the game (Jigsaw) • Make connections to our math curriculum

  23. Medicine wheel NUMBERS PATTERNS Shape and Space Statistics

  24. Created by : Carmen Messer

  25. Games within the medicine wheel • Review the four strands in math as related to the medicine wheel (Numbers, Patterns, Statistics and Probability, Shape and Space) • Get into pairs (will be provided with a game) • Play the game • Decide which stand(s) the game fits and which skills are being practiced • Share as a whole group

  26. Introduction to contemporary FNMI Math

  27. Samples and examples

  28. Contemporary FNMI Math Themes

  29. More contemporary FNMI Math

  30. Some more contemporary FNMI math

  31. Even more contemporary FNMI Math

  32. Time to explore and share

  33. Final reflection • Two Sticky notes: • Yellow Sticky Note – Comment on what you appreciated from your learning today. • Blue Sticky Note – If there were to be another FNMI Math day what would you recommend to add? • Ekosi! Time to have reciprocal teachings

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