Indigenising your content

The University of Adelaide

School of Education

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Welcome to Country
Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge that the Kaurna people are the

traditional custodians of the Adelaide plains region
and we respect their past, present and ongoing
connection to land and culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtejyc6bU44

This session is designed to raise you

awareness of placing an Indigenous
flavour into MATHEMATICs
Hopefully at the end of this session you will have
Had time to reflect on your teaching
Reflections on the possibilities of the inclusion or improving
on your practice as a teacher.
Develop strategies for engaging Parents/community
members/Elders/Specialist
Aligned your teaching with ACARA and AITSL standards
Develop a high expectational approach to your teaching
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What was some of your experiences

with Indigenising your content?

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http://www.storyofmathematics.com/mathematicians.html

Munga: noun darkness, night

munga kultu, middle of the night ,midnight
mungangka, at night
kuru mungatjara, just before dawn
munga atjurukatinyi, (night) to go pitch black, cloudy
moonless night ,impossible to see anything

munga-munga, just before sunrise or just after sundown

mungaringanyi, becoming dark, nightfall
mungawaluru, dusk twilight
mungartji, yesterday
mungartjirinyi, late afternoon
mungawinki, morning
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Weather cycles
http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/

http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/indigenous/firecalendar.htm
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http://www.users.on.net/~arachne/kaurna.jpg
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Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community: Culture, Place and

Narrative
by Anne Marie Monchamp

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Aboriginal Art in Paris By Artist

Lena Nyadbi

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Google Different types of BOOMERANGS and

bring up IMAGES

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Include Flight patterns and Wood characteristics

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#Boomerangs, Aerodynamics and Motion

Felix Hess is a Dutch scientist with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics.

In the 1960s and 1970s, he modelled the aerodynamics of
boomerang flight extensively. In 1975, he published the results of
his Ph.D. thesis in a 555 page soft cover book called "Boomerangs,
Aerodynamics and Motion". The thesis contained an excellent
summary of artefacts found throughout the world, a bibliography,
basic flight dynamics and detailed modelling of the lift forces on a
boomerang. There were chapters on wind tunnel testing, modelling
of flight paths based on photographic data captured using
boomerangs thrown at night with lights, and 3-D computer results
that could be viewed with special 3-D glasses. Felix no longer
throws or studies boomerangs and he doesn't want his book
reissued as a second edition, so the 300 or so printed copies that
are (were) mostly in technical libraries have become rare collectable
items among boomerang throwers.

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TITLE Patent specification. Mechanical

motion. Sheep shears. No. 15,624, 1909. D.
Unaipon, SA
DATE 1910
PLACE OF CREATION;
PUBLISHER Melbourne; Govt. Printer
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Whats out there-RESOURCES

Yumi Deadly
http://www.slideshare.net/aamtinc/yumi-deadly-maths-what-it-is-and-howit-works
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/S7089/index.html

Lets Count
http://mic.aamt.edu.au

The Smith Family

https://www.thesmithfamily.com.au/what-we-do/our-work/at-school/earlyyears-and-primary/lets-count
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Resources cont..
https://8ways.wikispaces.com/8way+maths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0tLbl5LrJ8

http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/archive_digitised_coll
ections/ethnomathematics/index.html

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http://www.gogeometry.com/ipad/solids-elementary-hd/ipad-apps-solids-elementary-hdvideo.html
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https://sylviayang0307.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/geometric-animation/

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.Aboriginal string games and weaving

http://press.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/Exploring+the+Legacy+of+the+1948+Arnh
em+Land+Expedition/4421/ch10.xhtml

http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/themes/24/australian-children-s-folklorecollection

.WEAVING
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/07/21/3274981.htm

http://childrensuniversity.com.au/events/tandanya-traditional-basket-weavingsouthern-elders-weavers-group/

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Chance and Probability

Through Games
http://www.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/402
191/SP_31864_TIG_resource_FINAL.pdf

Through hunting
Through weather patterns

These are controlled by weather patterns

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Refractive Angles

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The Current rate of Aboriginal home

Ownership
HOME OWNERSHIP RATES
In 2006 there were 158,600 households with at least one
usual resident of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
descent. Around one in eight Indigenous households
(18,350 or 12%) owned their home outright (without a
mortgage secured against the dwelling) and a further
38,650 (24%) owned their home with a mortgage. In
comparison there were 6,778,800 non-Indigenous
households; of which 2,412,350 (36%) where owned
outright and 2,397,500 (35%) were owned with a mortgage.
Task: represent these statistics in a number of charts
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Taken from the ABS

HOME OWNERSHIP OVER TIME PROJECTION

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4
722.0.55.005
Aboriginal Business register
http://www.digedi.com.au/northernterritory/business-list.php
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Aboriginal Fish traps

http://aboriginalsa.com.au/heritage.html

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Year 5 Mathematics Lesson Plan

Location and Transformation
Using the grid reference system to describe location. Describe routes
using landmarks and directional
Lesson 1 Teacher reads the Kaurna Dreaming story of the Tjilbruke

Bring up the story

https://kaurnaculture.wordpress.com/tjilbruke-dreaming-tracks/
Student retraces the story on Google Earth
Using the Symbols on the worksheet recreate the your interpretive
map
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Year 9
Mathematics
Measurement
And Geometry
Cylinder
Volume

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TASK 1.Compare the four types of

traps

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_enumeration

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/mathematics/curriculum/f-10?layout=1

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Mathematics in the Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gd-gUlBv_s

Quantum Matter and Quantum Mechanics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vajq-UK2aE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrsWPCp_rs

Probability
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Observation

Part 1
https://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2015/05
/09/the-helical-model-pt-1-our-solar-system-is-avortex-pt-2-our-galaxy-is-a-vortex/

Part 2

https://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2015/05
/09/the-helical-model-pt-1-our-solar-system-is-avortex-pt-2-our-galaxy-is-a-vortex/
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