The use of home language in the mathematics classroom
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Roberta Hunter, Brenda Bicknell, Tim Burgess
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In this symposium, I argue that the use of home language needs to be viewed as a valuable resource for teachers in Indigenous schools in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. For students to be able to negotiate meaning and mathematical concepts in Kriol can help facilitate their mathematical learning as well as demonstrate an explicit valuing of indigenous cultures and heritage.
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Crossing divides: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
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© 2009 MERGA. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher's website or contact the author. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owner for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted.
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Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy