When looking back at my own math education, it seems to me that it did include oppressive aspects in what was taught. My math teachers in high school were very inclusive in their practice, so at first, I couldn’t see any inequity. When revisiting what I had been taught and remembering the way that I learned, there are definitely aspects of eurocentrism. Mainly, example problems played the biggest role. In my earlier years, where diversity wasn’t reflected on as a major priority, the examples focused on problems of the majority. Even in my last years of high school, the math problems where still majority based, although there were some questions that used international problems. For me, this stuck out to me as the most prominent form of inequity to the minorities, but I feel as if my teacher, who was very focused on diversity, allowed for discussions about how math was taught around the world, and was open to new methods that may be culturally different. 

 Inuit mathematics challenge Eurocentric ideas surrounding math in many ways. One way is teaching math in the language of the Inuit people – Inuktitut. They teach math in Inuktitut until grade 3, where they switch to English. I feel as if this creates a foundation for these students, as learning math is already not an easy task. Students who immigrate to Canada at a young age are put at a disadvantage, as they have to learn math, as well as English at the same time. Another way is the basis that they use for math itself. Math in public Canadian education is a base ten model, wile the Inuit model is a base twenty model, with a sub-base of five. This is due to the cultural differences between the Eurocentric model that Canada has adopted, and the Inuit model. Both serve their cultural purpose in their own environments. I find it hard to picture a mathematical world where we don’t use base ten, but this is solely due to me being so accustomed to it. The one major way that I felt was most pivotal on the influence of mathematics education was language. Inuktitut is a language that is based on three vowels and fourteen consonants. Furthermore, it is a suffix-based language. This is very different when compared to English, where there is five vowels and twenty-one consonants. This language change acts as a barrier for Inuit students, and I can imagine it being very difficult to learn a new language to expand upon my education of a subject I had already started to understand.