{"id":1482,"date":"2012-09-17T18:46:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2012-09-17T18:46:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:46:19","slug":"math-catcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/2012\/09\/17\/math-catcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Catcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mathcatcher.irmacs.sfu.ca\/node\" target=\"_blank\">Math Catcher:Mathematics Through Aboriginal Storytelling<\/a> is a site dedicated to introducing math topics via Aboriginal storytelling methods.\u00a0 There are stories, video clips, background, rationale and links to conferences.\u00a0 The project this site stemmed from was initiated at a First Nations Math Education Workshop held at the Banff International Research Station (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birs.ca\/events\/2012\/5-day-workshops\/12w5076\" target=\"_blank\">BIRS<\/a>) for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery.<\/p>\n<p>One of the goals of this project is to promote mathematics for all peoples, but particularly in a way that will allow Aboriginal children to see themselves and their culture connected to mathematics, and to promote Aboriginal traditions amongst non-Aboriginal students.\u00a0 The stories on the site are available in both English and various Aboriginal languages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math Catcher:Mathematics Through Aboriginal Storytelling is a site dedicated to introducing math topics via Aboriginal storytelling methods.\u00a0 There are stories, video clips, background, rationale and links to conferences.\u00a0 The project this site stemmed from was initiated at a First Nations Math Education Workshop held at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for Mathematical Innovation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[583150,5449,2233,638],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-1","tag-education-and-training","tag-first-nations-education","tag-mathematics","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}