Curriculum as Literacy

When I was taught math in school, it was very product based education, we did note and questions and there at the end of the unit we wrote a test and this was the way all of my high school math was taught. It was only ever taught in one way and if you didn’t understand that way then that was to bad for you. There were lots of students who were really smart but the way that we taught math didn’t work for them, so they could do it themselves. It used to almost be an elite club of smart students in the higher math classes. Inuit math has a different style of teaching and shows math in a different way, it is used in different ways, it had a different purpose, and the presenter in class talked about how they struggled in math because they were actually working in a based 20 system instead of our base 10 system that we use. The math that they used had practical uses for them in their everyday life, whereas I never use quadratic formulas in my day to day life.

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