Math Catcher Outreach Program Promoting Mathematics and Scholarship. The Math Catcher Outreach program aims to promote mathematics and scholarship in general by encouraging elementary and high school students to recognize how math is used in everyday life and how it forms the basis for many of our daily decisions and life-long choices.

The first story, Small Number Counts to 100 was inspired by narration from Ms. Rina Sinclair of the Siksika Nation.The story can be shown to elementary school students as a counting practice/puzzle or as a pattern recognition problem. For high school students it can be a way to introduce arithmetic progressions, modular addition, or an idea of number systems with a base different than 10.

Math Catcher introduces mathematics and science to students through the use of First Nations imagery and storytelling.Math Catcher has produced animated films in the following languages Blackfoot, Cree, English, French, Gitxsan, Halq’em ́eylem, Heiltsuk, Hul’q’umi’num’, Huu-ay- aht, Nisga’a, Tla'amin, Spanish, Squamish, and Wet'suwet'en as well as bilingual picture books in ...

Small Number's Team. Veselin Jungic and Mark MacLean, Small Number's authors, are two mathematicians who are interested in promoting mathematics and who have enormous respect for Indigenous traditional knowledge.In their essence, our stories are inspired by what we have read in relevant literature, by what we heard from our Indigenous mentors, collaborators, and friends, and by what we ...

Small Number Counts to 100. Written by Veselin Jungic & Mark MacLean Illustrated by Simon Roy The first story, Small Number Counts to 100 was inspired by narration from Ms. Rina Sinclair of the Siksika Nation.The story can be shown to elementary school students as a counting practice/puzzle or as a pattern recognition problem.

Credits and Acknowledgements . Voice: Dexter Anakson of the Cree Nation - Piapot First Nation Band Sound: Sarah Van Borek, Simon Fraser University Music and Animation: Andy Gavel, Simon Fraser University Producer: Veselin Jungic, Simon Fraser University Director: Andy Gavel, Simon Fraser University Special Thanks To: Barry Cardinal of the Bigstone Cree Nation

Small Number and the Old Canoe. Written by Veselin Jungic & Mark MacLean Illustrated by Simon Roy. In Small Number and the Old Canoe, mathematics is present throughout the story with the hope that this experience will make at least some members of our young audience, with the moderator’s help, recognize more mathematics around them in their everyday lives.

Small Number is a young boy who gets into a lot of mischief. With his sister Perfect Number he visits their Grandma who lives in a small village on their Nation’s traditional territory. Small Number is a young boy who gets into a lot of mischief. …

Indigenizing University Mathematcis - 2021 CMS Winter Meeting: December 7, 2021: Math Catcher Festival: Learning Math Through Storytelling - 2021 NGIE

Blackfoot Translation by Connie Crop Eared Wolf and Eldon Yellowhorn The first story, Small Number Counts to 100 was inspired by narration from Ms. Rina Sinclair of the Siksika Nation. The story can be shown to elementary school students as a …