{"id":1792,"date":"2012-10-05T17:06:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T00:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2012-10-05T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T00:08:05","slug":"native-american-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/2012\/10\/05\/native-american-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.rpi.edu\/~eglash\/eglash.dir\/nacyb.dir\/nacomplx.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: medium\">Computation, Complexity and Coding in Native American Knowledge Systems<\/span><\/strong><\/a> by Ron Eglash<\/p>\n<p>I found this article\/paper interesting because it delves deeply into the science and mathematics of a number of Native American peoples.\u00a0 This is background knowledge that is useful to me as an upper level math teacher as I can use the examples authentically in class and tie them in to the curriculum.\u00a0 I also found this article interesting because it begins with a discussion of stereotypes and assumptions that are common in the portrayal of Native Americans.\u00a0 The following is a quote from the first paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We see these assumptions at work in many popular television documentaries, where one hears of the \u201cvanishing native\u201d who \u201clived at one with nature.\u201d\u00a0 &#8230; We need to take special efforts to open our eyes to the dynamic histories and technological sophistication of indigenous cultures&#8211;for example, to think about active indigenous ecological knowledge rather than the passive portraits we so often hear, e.g. \u201cIndians lived as part of the ecosystem.\u201d &#8221; (Eglash, 2002)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it is important to fight the common stereotypes by contradicting them with information about how sophisticated Indigenous knowledge systems were (and are), in a way that places those systems in context and respects the values associated with them.\u00a0 This article dovetails with my research interests and with the emphasis of Module 2.<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Eglash, Ron. \u201cComputation, Complexity and Coding in Native American Knowledge Systems.\u201d in Judith Hankes and Gerald Fast (ed) Changing the Faces of Mathematics: Perspectives on Indigenous People of North America. Reston, VA: NCTM 2002.\u00a0 Retrieved online at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.rpi.edu\/~eglash\/eglash.dir\/nacyb.dir\/nacomplx.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/homepages.rpi.edu\/~eglash\/eglash.dir\/nacyb.dir\/nacomplx.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computation, Complexity and Coding in Native American Knowledge Systems by Ron Eglash I found this article\/paper interesting because it delves deeply into the science and mathematics of a number of Native American peoples.\u00a0 This is background knowledge that is useful to me as an upper level math teacher as I can use the examples authentically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[583209,2233,673],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-2","tag-knowledge-systems","tag-mathematics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","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=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}