I had my first class in the math lab room today, and it was fun. We were asked to come up with things that relate to circles and parabolas. Initially, I was only thinking about the objects around us in our daily lives, like a merry-go-round, a full moon, and a Ferris wheel, but then Ross started writing a math equation that describes ellipses and parabolas, and he also started a lecture on Gabriel's horn, on how it can have finite volume but infinite surface area. It is refreshing to see some math again after a while in the B.Ed program. We then learned about how indigenous knowledge can be implemented in math classes by teaching sequences with indigenous art, which is a great example of how we can do the same for our teachable subjects.
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