Math is a verb: Activities and lessons from cultures around the world

Math is a Verb: Activities and Lessons from Cultures Around the World

By Jim Barta, Ron Eglash, and Cathy Barkley

This guide is for teachers who would like to enhance their mathematics instruction by integrating it with examples and activities from cultures throughout the world. It provides culturally situated examples, each linked to Common Core objectives, which show how mathematics can be so much more than a story problem or an exercise in a worksheet with little or no context.

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