Dorothy Strong, Director of the Bureau of Mathematics for the Chicago Public Schools,
talks about how culturally relevant connections in mathematical content make lessons
more interesting and applicable for students. Excerpted from the video series
Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, videoconference #2, Children
as Problem Solvers (NCREL, 1991).
"Everybody's talking about culture, but they're talking about it and they're making speeches, but we have really gone to real culturally relevant experiences for students, where it's what's happening to me that is the subject of the mathematics I learn, rather than what happened to somebody, somewhere, sometime, and I think that that's very critical, and then it makes culturally relevant appropriate for anybody, regardless of who you are."
Date posted: 1995