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 ...

November 11, 2011, 10:00 - 16:00 IRMACS Presentation Studio, Applied Science Building 10900, The IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Campus

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.

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

Week 1. Week one of camp has been full of activities, learning and incredible people. The opening day was full of generosity and caring- Mr. William Lindsey did our opening, Mr. Gary George sang a welcoming song, Dr. Felix Breden welcomed us to IRMACS, Ms. Melania Alvarez brought us greetings from the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Welcome to the 1st SFU Academic Summer Camp for Aboriginal High School Students!. Between July 2 and August 1, 2014, the Department of Mathematics, the Office for Aboriginal Peoples and the Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematics and Computational Sciences Centre (IRMACS), with the support of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the SFU Faculty of Science ...

The Coordinator of the Math Catcher Outreach program is Veselin Jungic, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University.For information about the Math Catcher program and/or to arrange a visit to your school, please contact Veselin Jungic at [email protected].