I have a teacher asking about tying in math with cultural literacy. Any suggestions? Thoughts? Ideas? #mathchat
Patricia A. replied:
have you thought about the US Census Bureau's data? http://www.census.gov
Sarah C. replied:
Was a great workshop https://www.twitter.com/indspire about using bead work patterns to teach math!
Rebekah D. replied:
. top of head: minorities (and female!) who did math for NASA, the math in music - see http://will.i.am 's work here # mathchat
John P. replied:
ethnomathematics is very powerful learning and also ron eglash is great.. culturally situated design tools. http://www.csdt.rpi.edu/
Terri E. replied:
How about math games around the world? https://www.amazon.com/Math-Games-Activities-Around-World/dp/1556522878/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480361310&sr=8-1&keywords=math+games+around+the+world # mathchat
t8sh replied:
I have a lot of thoughts + potential ideas for this and know https://www.twitter.com/rise_up_to is doing the same. Great request! # TBA
Matthew C. replied:
# Demographics + https://www.twitter.com/ifttt + https://www.twitter.com/gladwell = https://www.twitter.com/macklemore , or how might the cultural allusion of a song or product affect revenue?
Leah S. replied:
have the T look https://www.twitter.com/the premise that math is the universal lang. Is there truth in that? Or cultural diff. in Ts teaching math, etc.