Through my education math was always a subject I had better at. Through all of elementary I was not very challenged and understood it well. Through high school most of it came pretty naturally to me. In university it hit me like a truck but to be expected. In most of my experiences I have known a lot of people who happened to struggle. With math being mostly memorizing rules it just wasn’t always a good way to remember, especially if math wasn’t your thing. The main thing I think that really didn’t help was that most teachers teaching math wouldn’t teach or try to teach or word math in more then one way. When they would help someone they would just repeat the same thing which didn’t do anyone any favors.

Through Inuit ways of teaching math, they take a different approach then what we are used to. Firstly, they do it by 20’s as a main stepping stone instead of 10’s like we use. Secondly, they attach it more to the environment and the world around. Lastly, they also do math very orally compared to writing it down and memorizing it by writing it down (Poirier, 2007)