MBC Freelance Correspondent Danielle Dufour talks with Dr. Sardarli about Indigenization of math and science.

Dr. Arzu Sardarli, a professor of physics and mathematics, Indigenous knowledge, and science at the First Nations University, is heading up a research project to develop educational resources for Cree and Metis languages.

There were discussions at the First Nations University about the Indigenization of mathematics and science, as they received some complaints that what was being taught was colonized.

“All nations contributed to mathematics,” said Dr. Sardarli. “Mathematics is not colonized; the way of teaching mathematics and maybe the way of teaching science is colonized.”

This project will show how one can teach mathematics in other ways instead of just using examples developed by European nations.

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