Finding Meaning in Maths
An Introductory Program for Aboriginal Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5162461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beth Graham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 24-40 |
| Publication date | 1984-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Aboriginal Child at School (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0310-5822 • E-ISSN: 2059-9242 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0310582200013389 |
| OpenAlex | W2493934703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 3 |
Many teachers involved in school education of Aboriginal children have, for a variety of complex reasons, found it difficult to design programs that begin with the things children know and move to those things that children have to learn. All too frequently school education offered to Aboriginal children has been conceived in Western terms and delivered in our language. Programs designed for children from mainstream Australia have simply been transposed with minimal adaptation into Aboriginal schools. In many curriculum areas the results have not been exciting. In the area of mathematics they have been dismal if not disastrous (see Williams, 1979). The introduction of bilingual education into many of the remote traditionally oriented communities of the Northern Territory has made it possible for educators to re-examine the assumptions on which many of our mathematics offerings have been based. This paper outlines some of the initiatives that have been taken in the Northern Territory to enable children to formally organise and classify local Aboriginal mathematical knowledge as well as begin to acquire some ideas related to the Western view of the world and so provide more meaningful introductory mathematics programs for Aboriginal children
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2017 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |