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Chapter 7: Maths as storytelling: Maths is beautiful

Chapter 7: Maths as storytelling: Maths is beautiful

pp. 138-161

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How can you exist? They qualified this question by saying that, according to statistics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students are severely underperforming in mathematics and yet you, an Aboriginal man, have a PhD in applied mathematics. How can that be? I was perceived as an anomaly: a glitch in the system.

Keywords

  • Maths
  • storytelling
  • dance
  • indigenous
  • culture
  • art
  • creativity
  • education
  • curriculum
  • sense-making

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