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Association: Name: North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education URL: http://www.pmena.org
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Poirier, Louise. "Teaching mathematics to Inuit children in Nunavik: taking into account the environment and the culture." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Oct 21, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p117527_index.html>

Poirier, L. , 2004-10-21 "Teaching mathematics to Inuit children in Nunavik: taking into account the environment and the culture." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p117527_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In the spring of 2000, the Inuit community and the Kativik School Board were pondering over the difficulties encountered by students in mathematics and the measures that could be taken to help students. One significant fact that could help explain these difficulties is that Inuit students learn Inuit mathematics (for example, a base 20 numeral system) in their own language in the first three years of their schooling and then go on to study in either French or English. It would thus seem that for these students two separate and distinct universes are cohabiting: the world of day-to-day life and the “southern” mathematical world. Faced with this dual phenomenon, the instructional situation becomes highly complex: how can these two cultures be combined and accommodated in mathematics teaching situations? In this project we call on ethnomathematical research findings (Saxe, 1991; Bishop, 1988; Gerdes, 1985…) to help us better understand the impact of culture on the learning of mathematics and to provide methodological tools, while a collaborative approach to research guides us in our work with the teachers (Bednarz, Poirier, Desgagné and Couture, 2001; Desgagné, Bednarz, Couture, Poirier and Lebuis, 2001). The cooperation between the researcher and teachers in creating adapted teaching situations involves a planned alternation of situation development, classroom experimentation, and feedback. We believe that a triple input is essential to the development of teaching situations, namely didactics, the teachers’ experiential knowledge, and the cultural knowledge of the Inuit community. The team includes, besides the researcher, 6 inuit teachers form the Kativik School Board, 3 members of the Inuit community working as Inuit teacher educators, and curriculum development. During this presentation, we will first talk about the environment and cultural aspects that brought the Inuit to develop their numeration system, their ways of measuring (length, distance, time…) and their great aptitudes in spatial representations. Then, we will discuss the current collaborative project that aims in the development of teaching situations adapted to Inuit classrooms. Key words: collaborative research, Inuit community, culture.

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