Learning Summary ECS 203
Blog Post Week 6
From this article, I saw three main ways in which Inuit math challenges Eurocentric ideas. This includes math and language, teaching methods, and math-related to culture. Inuit children are taught math in their own language until grade three. This encourages students to use their cultural language and be fluent in it. I would rather see the students continue to learn math in their own language their entire careers as students as it continues to keep the language and the culture…
Week 5 Blog Post
What is the purpose of teaching Treaty Ed (specifically) or First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI) Content and Perspectives (generally) where there are few or no First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples? We must teach Treaty Education to all students, as it is a part of Canada’s history. Treaty Education has been avoided for a long time in Canadian schools. There is a lot of shame in what happened to Indigenous people when Treaties were made, and even now, we…