Math was something that I struggled in, in elementary school. Most of my teachers used other resources to teach math like, Khan Academy. In high school math definitely made a lot more sense to me and I improved drastically with my math skills. I think it was because the teachers actually were passionate about teaching math and cared to help the students in the spare time. I spent a lot of lunches in the math rooms to help build my skills. Looking back the teachers that helped me with my math were always kind and fun to be around, honestly me and my friends would hang out in their rooms without having any math problems. I always thought math was taught one way and everyone had to do it that way, it was not until later in my schooling that I figured out that math can be solved in so many different ways.
The main difference with Inuit math is the language differences. The development of the numeration system is influenced by the culture, language and environment. The difference between Eurocentric math and Inuit math is that we don’t focus on the culture, language and environment as much. Being able to solve equations and finding points on the graph seems to be the bigger aspect of Eurocentric math. The aspects of math is not a universal language, as many different country’s and cultures have developed different tools to solve math problems. Traditional Inuit teaching is based on observing an elder. This is different than what most of people are aware of where the teacher would teach from the front of the class and students would then listen and write, rather then observing.
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My upbringing and schooling played a role in how I view and read the world has it is around me. Growing up in the city there was a lot of diversity around me, but specifically at my school there was little diversity. Many of my teachers where white females and white males who had grown up also in the city. During my time at school we only really learnt about similar people to me, middle-class with a heterosexual family. Growing up I was definitely aware of other cultures and we did talk about them a little bit in my classes but only for short periods of time. As a community we worked together to create cultural fairs, that showcased the cultures in the surrounding community. One major aspect I see myself working against my biases is to first acknowledge that I have some and to be aware that other people may have the same ones and that is okay. With working towards a unbiased opinion this will take me to consider having an open mind to divers cultures and family structures in the community. When acknowledging ones biases, I can start to find a new path for myself and learn to teach students the importance of everyone’s culture even if it is outside my comfort zone.
In my elementary schooling I was never exposed to a great amount of citizenship. We may have briefly looked at the subject of citizenship but never went into full detail where I would have remembered anything from it. There was one time in 7th grade where we had jobs and we had to work as a team to pay for extra supplies, help others and fulfill our responsibilities as members of a certain job. Also, with this job we had to make decisions; one of the jobs that I was a part of was making a seating plan for every month and this took a lot of problem solving and decision making, with going back and forth with our teacher. When I got to high school, we had a group of students who led the school called the SRC, whenever spring came around, we had to participate in voting for the new school president for the next school year. During my 4 years of high school we never really talked about what makes a good citizen or how we can change to become better citizens for the societies, usually this topic only came up briefly for when the teacher or students got off topic during class time.
The three types of citizenship that are mentioned in the article are “the personally responsible citizen, the participatory citizen, and the justice-oriented citizen”. During my school I was never a part of groups at school where they would work towards social change. We had a group that was called RIA (royals in action), this group represented the justice-oriented citizen because they were set out to try to make environmental changes and social changes in the surrounding community and other parts of Regina. This focused on the doing aspect and how to change the society, which can be a big job to handle. As I mentioned earlier, I was not influenced in any way of citizenship till high school, but even then, it was very low key. It may have been more effective if we did learn about citizenship, so that we also know how to make a good citizen and what we can change to become better citizen for this society. I think its important for every school to touch base on all three types of citizenship so that we can all be active citizens of society. |
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