The Math Catcher Outreach program aims to promote mathematics and scholarship in general by encouraging elementary and high school students to recognize how math is used in everyday life and how it ...

To promote mathematics we have created a series of stories with mathematical themes. These stories are inspired by the storytelling tradition of Indigenous peoples. The fact that most of our stories ...

The main character in our animations thus far is a boy called Small Number. He is a bright, playful kid, with the ability to recognize patterns and calculate quickly. Other characters introduced so ...

Small Number is a five year-old boy who gets into a lot of mischief. He lives with his Grandma and Grandpa, who patiently put up with his antics most of the time. Today, Grandpa needs to finish ...

The first story, Small Number Counts to 100 was inspired by narration from Ms. Rina Sinclair of the Siksika Nation. The story can be shown to elementary school students as a counting practice/puzzle ...

Blackfoot Translation by Connie Crop Eared Wolf and Eldon Yellowhorn The first story, Small Number Counts to 100 was inspired by narration from Ms. Rina Sinclair of the Siksika Nation. The story can ...

Small Number is a young boy who gets into a lot of mischief. He lives in a big city with his mother and his older sister Perfect Number. Every Sunday afternoon, Small Number does his math homework.

Janelle Dobson-Kocsis, Veselin Jungic, and Sasha Tiede presented at the 2016 Vancouver School Board District Mathematical Conference. The title and the abstract of their presentation were as follows: ...

The workshop is organized by the Math Catcher Outreach Program, the SFU Office for Aboriginal Peoples, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and the IRMACS Centre. The workshop comes at ...

The SFU Academic Sumer Camp for Aboriginal High School Students ran for 4 weeks (Monday to Friday) over the summer. We included a variety of interdisciplinary activities so that the students and ...

Small Number is a young boy who gets into a lot of mischief. Twice a week, after school, he goes with his friends to the Aboriginal Friendship Centre. There the boys first have a snack and then they ...

Small Number is a young boy who gets into a lot of mischief. He lives in a small village by the water with his mother and father. It is a crisp autumn day and Small Number is helping his father to ...