Reading & response: From Indigenous mathematician Ed Doolittle
Doolittle (2018) Off the grid. In S.Gerofsky (Ed.) Geometries of liberation. New York: Palgrave, pp. 101-121. Please read this very interesting piece and write a blog post on it by Sunday, December 8 at 8:00 PM. Suggested prompts: Talk about 2 or 3 'stops' you had in reading this: things that stopped you, surprised you, etc. Think about how this paper might offer new approaches to Indigenizing mathematics curriculum and teaching. Does it challenge or stretch any of your ideas around this? The author questions the grid concept "We know well the benefits of using the grid, but what are the dangers? What are the preconditions for the grid which may not be satisfied in real-world applications? What are the extremes at which the grid can fail? What are the consequences of failure? And what are the alternatives?" This questioning process makes me think of the development of Non-Euclidean geometry which also starts from questioning the truth of Euclid's 5...
