The Mathematics of Indigenous Card Games: Implicationsudfor Mathematics Teaching and Learning

摘要

Many rural Indigenous students perform poorly in mathematics as measured by standardudtests. This paper discusses contextualisation of mathematics with respect to Indigenousudculture and explores the card games the children play out of school. It was found that some of the games were sophisticated and mathematical in terms of strategies needed to succeed.udThe paper provides descriptions and mathematical analyses of two games which could beudused to develop assessment tools to explore the mathematical understanding of Indigenousudstudents and motivating learning activities consistent with existing community mathematics contexts. It draws implications for the use of these games as contextualisation.