Salmon Fishing - Kit: Investigations Into Probability: Math in a Cultural Context: Lessons Learned from Yup'ik Eski

This series is a supplemental math curriculum based on the traditional wisdom and practices of the Yup ik people of southwest Alaska. The result of more than a decade of collaboration between math educators and elders, these modules connect cultural knowledge to school mathematics. Students are challenged to communicate and think mathematically as they solve inquiry-oriented problems, which require creative, practical and analytical thinking. Classroom-based research strongly suggests that students engaged in this curriculum can develop deeper mathematical understandings than students who engage only with a procedure-oriented, paper-and-pencil curriculum."