Math + Culture for Indigenous Peoples Celeste Ann L. Castillo
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How do we take mathematics out of classrooms and into the real world of work, tradition, and everyday life? Making abstract mathematical concepts as real and concrete to mathematics learners has always been a challenge. This is certainly the case too for Indigenous students.
One possible answer is ethnomathematics, the study of the intersection of mathematics and culture, which is now finding its way into the Philippine government’s Indigenous Peoples’ Education (IPEd) program.
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Dr. Wilfredo V. Alangui, professor of mathematics at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, College of Science, UP Baguio, sitting underneath a photo gallery of Indigenous people in his office. Photo by Celeste Llaneta, UP MPRO.
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