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Imagining Community-Based Math Teaching by Mark Fettes — last modified 2008-02-15 14:52

Weaving, fishing, carving, drumming, eco-tourism – these are not the first activities that come to mind when we think about learning mathematics. Yet perhaps we should, according to Kanwal Neel, a well-known BC mathematics educator who recently completed a study of numeracy practices in the communities of Haida Gwaii as a central component of his PhD thesis. (Dec. 2007)

In the Classroom: An Interview with Penny Hasell by Raegan Sawka and Penny Hasell — last modified 2008-02-18 09:17

Penny Hasell, a grade 4/5 teacher at Roosevelt Park Community School in Prince Rupert and graduate of the Masters in Education program linked with LUCID, talks with fellow graduate and colleague Raegan Sawka about her exprience in the LUCID Project. She tells us of her successes in her classroom and also some of the struggles as she forges her way into teaching in a culturally-inclusive, imaginative way. (Dec. 2007)