Teaching kids how to do math involves more than just manipulating figures and formulas. Education professor Jim Barta from Utah State University says culture also influences how well math concepts stick, and he says students benefit when their history, traditions and cultural values are part of the math curriculum.
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Dr. Jim Barta presents the lecture “Dancing Numbers! Traditional Uses of Mathematics in American Indian Cultures and Applications in Today’s Classrooms” on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 1:45 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Library, fourth floor meeting room, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City. The event, sponsored by the Forum for Questioning Minds, is free and open to the public.
