Collaborating to Meet Language Challenges in Indigenous Mathematics Classrooms [Paperback]

Language can be simultaneously both a support and a hindrance to students learning of mathematics. When students have sufficient fluency in the mathematics register so that they can discuss their ideas, they become chiefs who are able to think mathematically. However, learning the mathematics register of an Indigenous language is not a simple exercise and involves many challenges not only for students, but also for their teachers and the wider community. Collaborating to Meet Language Challenges in Indigenous Mathematics Classrooms identifies some of the challengespolitical, mathematical, community based, and pedagogical to the mathematics register, faced by an Indigenous school, in this case a M?ori immersion school. It also details the solutions created by the collaboration of teachers, researchers and community members.

Language can be both a support and a hindrance to students learning of mathematics. This book identifies some of the challenges - political, mathematical, community based, and pedagogical - to the mathematics register, faced by an Indigenous school.

Table of Contents.- Acknowledgement.- Glossary.- Chapter 1 Introduction to the book and themes.-The school and the data.- Using case studies.- The complexity of learning mathematics in an Indigenous language.- Meeting and overcoming challenges. Section A Meeting Political Challenges Maui.- Chapter 2 The development of a mathematics register in an Indigenous language.- Te wero no waho  the external challenge.- Te wero no roto  the internal challenge.- The process of expanding the mathematics register in te reo M?ori.- The Standardising Process.- Challenges to Te Reo M?ori from developing the mathematics register.- Meeting challenges.- Chapter 3 History of Te Koutu  the politicisation of a local community.- The history of Te Koutu.- Governance and wh?nau involvement in the school.- Meeting challenges in establishinglã5