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Alaska Native Indigenous knowledge: opportunities for learning mathematics

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  1. Dora Andrew-Ihrke is an adjunct faculty/consultant to the Math in Cultural Context program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a retired teacher and bilingual co-ordinator.

  2. For a full account of the underpinnings of the present work, see Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup’ik Eskimo Examples (Lipka et al. 1998).

  3. Subsistence activities used in MCC supplemental curriculum include picking berries, egging (gathering bird eggs), building a fish rack and smokehouse, kayak design and making border patterns for parka hoods and hemlines. Details of these models and a description of mathematical concepts incorporated can be found at http://www.uaf.edu/mcc/modules/.

  4. For an in-depth description see Lipka et al. (2011).

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Acknowledgments

This research was conducted, in part, with the financial support provided by the University of Sydney, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Alexander Mackie Travel Fellowship. In addition, this article was partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation Award#ARC-1048301, Indigenous Ways of Doing, Knowing, and the Underlying Mathematics: Exploratory Workshop and from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, Award #R305A070218, Determining the Potential Efficacy of 6th Grade Math Modules. However, any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the U.S. Department of Education.

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    Jerry Lipka & Dora Andrew-Ihrke

  2. Faculty of Education and Social Work University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    Monica Wong

  3. School of Education Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, NSW, 2135, Australia

    Monica Wong

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Lipka, J., Wong, M. & Andrew-Ihrke, D. Alaska Native Indigenous knowledge: opportunities for learning mathematics. Math Ed Res J 25, 129–150 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13394-012-0061-4

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