Funds of Knowledge of Sorting and Patterning: Networks of Exchange in a Torres Strait Island
          Community

Bronwyn Ewing

doi:10.1017/jie.2012.20

Authors

Bronwyn Ewing Queensland University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2012.20

Keywords:

Torres Strait Islands, Torres Strait Islander Parents, Indigenous Knowledge Centre, funds of knowledge, sorting, repeating patterns

Abstract

This article focuses on the funds of knowledge that are mathematical in nature and how they might be used to support parents and children with their learning of mathematics that is taught and learned in the early years of school. Funds of knowledges are those that have been historically and culturally accumulated into a body of knowledge and skills essential for people's functioning and wellbeing. Drawing on community research design, where the process of learning is owned and framed by the community and its people, a consultative meeting was held to discuss the pilot project.

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