Local call number: p CRA

Personal Author: Crawford, Kathryn

Title: National seminar on teaching mathematics to Aboriginal children

Publication info: 1986

Annotation: Identifies research, teacher education, educational administration and curriculum needs in

ethnomathematics

Source: Unicorn -- 1986; 12(3); 183-184 – Photocopy

Local call number: B N874.20/M2

Corporate Author: Northern Territory. Dept. of Education. Professional Services Branch. Mathematics Unit

Title: Mathematics in Aboriginal schools, T-3, 1. Transition : [draft] / by T. Ward, B. Graham and J. Cougar

Publication info: Darwin 1982

Physical descrip: iii, 101 p.

General Note: bibl.; diags.; illus.

Annotation: Support material; includes background information, suggestions for lesson planning etc., sample lessons

Added Author: Ward, Teresa

Added Author: Graham, Beth

Added Author: De Klerk, Judith

Call number: MS 2490

Personal Author: Graham, Beth

Title: Language and mathematics in the Aboriginal context : a study of classroom interactions about addition in the early years / Beth Graham

Publication info: Waurn Ponds, Vic. Waurns Ponds, Vic. , 1986 1986

Physical descrip: 339 leaves in various foliations

General Note: Bibliography; leaves B1-B8; Typescript; Thesis

(M.A.)--Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Vic.; Thesis

(M.A.)-- Deakin University, Waurns Ponds, Vic.

Access: Open access - reading. Open copying & quotation. Not for Inter-Library Loan

Annotation: Analysis of discourse occurring during mathematics lessons for traditionally oriented Aboriginal children; showed institutionalised nature of interaction between teachers and students; linguistic analysis of grammar and questioning, particularly use of theme to illuminate experiential, interpersonal and textual functions of discourse; found absence of modality discouraged students to speculate; warned that teachers code switching to vernacular could degrade language; suggested strategies to stimulate students discourse and understanding of meaning of mathematics in wider world outside classroom

Local call number: B H315.52/M2

Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan

Title: Mathematics in a cultural context : Aboriginal perspectives on space, time and money / Pam Harris

Publication info: Geelong, Vic.:Deakin University Press , 1991 1991

Physical descrip: 168 p.; ill., maps

General Note: Bibliography; p. 155-160

Annotation: World view and language; concepts of space; orientation and navigation; maps, mapmaking and map reading; understanding of shapes and line; use of linguistic position indicators; temporal concepts and orientation in time and the Dreaming; linguistic marking of time; time measurements - events, distance, boundary, divisions; teaching time concepts; traditional and cash economies; concepts of money, work, saving and budgeting; gambling

ISBN: 0-73001-209-3

Serials

Local call number: S 37.7/2

Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan

Title: Measurement in tribal Aboriginal communities

Annotation: Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia (MERGA), May 1978; relevance of primary school mathematics to remote NT Aborigines; expression of measurement in Aboriginal vernacular from English, use of local units of measure

Source: Developing education (Division of the Department of Education, Northern Territory, Darwin) -- 1980; 7(4 ); 23-28 -- bibl.; illus. tbls.

Pamphlets

Local call number: p HAR

Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan

Title: Mathematics in Aboriginal Schools Project : space strand investigation guide

Publication info: Darwin:Department of Education, Professional Services Branch 1980

Physical descrip: 17 p.

Annotation: Guide for investigating spatial concepts in Aboriginal languages, for development of bilingual curriculum

Local call number: p HAR

Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan

Title: Mathematics in Aboriginal Schools Project, British Council Program, September 1980

Publication info: Darwin:Department of Education, Professional Services Branch 1980

Physical descrip: 9 p.

Annotation: Notes, comments and references on mathematics teaching in bilingual contexts

Local call number: p HAR

Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan

Title: Teaching about money in tribal Aboriginal communities

Publication info: Darwin:Department of Education, Professional Services Branch 1984

Physical descrip: viii, 35 p.

Series Title: (Mathematics in Aboriginal Schools Project, 3)

General Note: bibl.; illus.; tbl.

Annotation: Anglo-Australian and tribal attitudes, Aboriginal knowledge of currency, Aboriginal ways of handling money, saving/spending, banking/budgeting

Local call number: p HAR

Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan

Title: Teaching about time in tribal Aboriginal communities

Publication info: Darwin:Department of Education, Professional Services Branch:Canberra, Curriculum Development Centre 1984

Physical descrip: viii, 48 p.

Series Title: (Mathematics in Aboriginal Schools Project, 2)

General Note: bibl.; diag.; illus.

Annotation: Time orientation, concepts, natural units of time, time in the human life cycle; time as event, distance, limit; measurement; aims and strategies for teaching

Manuscripts

Call number: MS 1019

Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan

Title: Survey of unpublished information related to teaching mathematics to tribal Aborigines who speak English as a second language : project undertaken as part of the Mathematics Unit of the first year of the Bachelor of Special Education degree course at : Monash University

Publication info: Melbourne 1976

Physical descrip: [252] p.

General Note: diags.; tbls.; Typescript and holograph (photocopy)

Access: Open access - reading. Closed copying & quotation Principal and/or Depositor's permission. Not for Inter-Library Loan

Annotation: See Finding Aid for full details http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/finding_aids/MS1019.htm

Call number: MS 1167 (12)

Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan

Title: Teaching mathematics in Aboriginal schools

Publication info: 1978

Access: Open access - reading. Open copying & quotation. Not for Inter-Library Loan

Annotation: Innovation programmes; Nunggubuyu / English concepts at Numbulwar, Gumatj / English at Yirrkala, Maung / English at Goulburn Island; Maningrida and Lajomanu and Kalakaringi; teaching about time and money

Added Author: Ryan, B.

Source: National Conference for Teachers of Aboriginal Children [3rd. Darwin, 1978 -- Papers presented -Darwin , 1978; 25 l. -- bibl.

Call number: MS 3210

Personal Author: Stanton, Ronald James

Title: Mathematics studies for Aboriginal teacher education students of the Northern Territory : a case study of the development and implementation of the Batchelor College course / Ronald James Stanton

Publication info: 1992 1992

Physical descrip: viii, 175 p.; ill.; map

General Note: Research paper (M.Ed.) - Deakin University, Geelong, Vic. , 1992; Bibliography; p. 167-175; Includes tables; Typescript (processed); Photocopy

Access: Open access - reading. Open copying & quotation. Not for Inter-Library Loan

Annotation: Outlines history of Aboriginal teacher education in Northern Territory; development of remote area teacher education (R.A.T.E.); 1990 and 1991 course outlines; development of mathematics curriculum for teacher education; outline of four stage curriculum; discusses problems of evaluating both students and course