News

Abstract: Come experience the Math Catcher Outreach Program that promotes mathematics by encouraging elementary students to recognize how math is used in everyday life and how it forms the basis for ...
The IRMACS Centre The Math Catcher Outreach Program contributed to the Department of Mathematics' showcase of some of the basic and applied research that takes place everyday at the department. The ...
Recently, we attended a full-day workshop with Veselin to learn about the Mathcatcher program. We come from a school with 56% of our students self-identifying as being of Aboriginal ancestry. I found ...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 09:00 - 10:15 John Oliver Secondary Secondary 530 East 41st Ave., Vancouver, BC V5W 1P3 Janelle Dobson-Kocsis, Veselin Jungic, and Sasha Tiede presented at the 2016 ...
Veselin Jungic and Janelle Dobson-Kocsis presented at the Connecting the Pieces: Pre-K and Kindergarten conference. This was the eleventh annual pre-k and kindergarten conference that featured over 50 ...
Veselin Jungic was honoured with the invitation to talk about mathematics to the students enrolled in the SFU Graduate Certificate in the Linguistics of a First Nations Language - Hul'q'umi'num' ...
Newlands Golf and Country Club, Langley, BC. Siya:ye Yoyes is a networking group of Aboriginal educators from school districts from Delta to Fraser-Cascade. The group held the " Strengthening the ...
The program has a strong Aboriginal component that includes school visits, creation of resources in First Nations languages, math and science workshops for Aboriginal students, and annual month-long ...
CAGIS is an award-winning national organization that brings girls 7-16 together to explore science in diverse ways, including hands-on experimentation, onsite visits with scientists, and discovery ...
Math Catcher Outreach Program Promoting Mathematics and Scholarship The Math Catcher Outreach program aims to promote mathematics and scholarship in general by encouraging elementary and high school ...
The first story, Small Number Counts to 100 was inspired by narration from Ms. Rina Sinclair of the Siksika Nation. The story can be shown to elementary school students as a counting practice/puzzle ...
Small Number Counts to 100 Our intention is to create stories in such a way that they allow for interpretations at multiple levels of mathematical knowledge. For example, our first story, Small Number ...