Beth Graham
Books
Local call number: B N874.20/M2
Corporate Author: Northern Territory. Dept. of Education. Professional Services Branch. Mathematics Unit
Title: Mathematics in Aboriginal schools, T-3, 1. Transition : [draft] / by T. Ward, B. Graham and J. Cougar
Publication info: Darwin 1982
Physical descrip: iii, 101 p.
General Note: bibl.; diags.; illus.
Annotation: Support material; includes background information, suggestions for lesson planning etc., sample lessons
Added Author: Ward, Teresa
Added Author: Graham, Beth
Added Author: De Klerk, Judith
Manuscripts
Call number: MS 2490
Personal Author: Graham, Beth
Title: Language and mathematics in the Aboriginal context : a study of classroom interactions about addition in the early years / Beth Graham
Publication info: Waurn Ponds, Vic. Waurns Ponds, Vic. , 1986 1986
Physical descrip: 339 leaves in various foliations
General Note: Bibliography; leaves B1-B8; Typescript; Thesis
(M.A.)--Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Vic.; Thesis
(M.A.)-- Deakin University, Waurns Ponds, Vic.
Access: Open access - reading. Open copying & quotation. Not for Inter-Library Loan
Annotation: Analysis of discourse occurring during mathematics lessons for traditionally oriented Aboriginal children; showed institutionalised nature of interaction between teachers and students; linguistic analysis of grammar and questioning, particularly use of theme to illuminate experiential, interpersonal and textual functions of discourse; found absence of modality discouraged students to speculate; warned that teachers code switching to vernacular could degrade language; suggested strategies to stimulate students discourse and understanding of meaning of mathematics in wider world outside classroom
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Pamela Harris
Books
Local call number: B H315.52/M2
Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan
Title: Mathematics in a cultural context : Aboriginal perspectives on space, time and money / Pam Harris
Publication info: Geelong, Vic.:Deakin University Press , 1991 1991
Physical descrip: 168 p.; ill., maps
General Note: Bibliography; p. 155-160
Annotation: World view and language; concepts of space; orientation and navigation; maps, mapmaking and map reading; understanding of shapes and line; use of linguistic position indicators; temporal concepts and orientation in time and the Dreaming; linguistic marking of time; time measurements - events, distance, boundary, divisions; teaching time concepts; traditional and cash economies; concepts of money, work, saving and budgeting; gambling
ISBN: 0-73001-209-3
Serials
Local call number: S 37.7/2
Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan
Title: Measurement in tribal Aboriginal communities
Annotation: Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia (MERGA), May 1978; relevance of primary school mathematics to remote NT Aborigines; expression of measurement in Aboriginal vernacular from English, use of local units of measure
Source: Developing education (Division of the Department of Education, Northern Territory, Darwin) -- 1980; 7(4 ); 23-28 -- bibl.; illus. tbls.
Pamphlets
Local call number: p HAR
Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan
Title: Mathematics in Aboriginal Schools Project : space strand investigation guide
Publication info: Darwin:Department of Education, Professional Services Branch 1980
Physical descrip: 17 p.
Annotation: Guide for investigating spatial concepts in Aboriginal languages, for development of bilingual curriculum
Local call number: p HAR
Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan
Title: Mathematics in Aboriginal Schools Project, British Council Program, September 1980
Publication info: Darwin:Department of Education, Professional Services Branch 1980
Physical descrip: 9 p.
Annotation: Notes, comments and references on mathematics teaching in bilingual contexts
Local call number: p HAR
Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan
Title: Teaching about money in tribal Aboriginal communities
Publication info: Darwin:Department of Education, Professional Services Branch 1984
Physical descrip: viii, 35 p.
Series Title: (Mathematics in Aboriginal Schools Project, 3)
General Note: bibl.; illus.; tbl.
Annotation: Anglo-Australian and tribal attitudes, Aboriginal knowledge of currency, Aboriginal ways of handling money, saving/spending, banking/budgeting
Local call number: p HAR
Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan
Title: Teaching about time in tribal Aboriginal communities
Publication info: Darwin:Department of Education, Professional Services Branch:Canberra, Curriculum Development Centre 1984
Physical descrip: viii, 48 p.
Series Title: (Mathematics in Aboriginal Schools Project, 2)
General Note: bibl.; diag.; illus.
Annotation: Time orientation, concepts, natural units of time, time in the human life cycle; time as event, distance, limit; measurement; aims and strategies for teaching
Manuscripts
Call number: MS 1019
Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan
Title: Survey of unpublished information related to teaching mathematics to tribal Aborigines who speak English as a second language : project undertaken as part of the Mathematics Unit of the first year of the Bachelor of Special Education degree course at : Monash University
Publication info: Melbourne 1976
Physical descrip: [252] p.
General Note: diags.; tbls.; Typescript and holograph (photocopy)
Access: Open access - reading. Closed copying & quotation Principal and/or Depositor's permission. Not for Inter-Library Loan
Annotation: See Finding Aid for full details http://www1.aiatsis.gov.au/finding_aids/MS1019.htm
Call number: MS 1167 (12)
Personal Author: Harris, Pamela Joan
Title: Teaching mathematics in Aboriginal schools
Publication info: 1978
Access: Open access - reading. Open copying & quotation. Not for Inter-Library Loan
Annotation: Innovation programmes; Nunggubuyu / English concepts at Numbulwar, Gumatj / English at Yirrkala, Maung / English at Goulburn Island; Maningrida and Lajomanu and Kalakaringi; teaching about time and money
Added Author: Ryan, B.
Source: National Conference for Teachers of Aboriginal Children [3rd. Darwin, 1978 -- Papers presented -Darwin , 1978; 25 l. -- bibl.
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