Marlys Henke's
Cultural Relevance Model
Marlys Henke, an award-winning math teacher in St. Paul, Minnesota,
has developed a lesson-plan format in which she incorporates the contributions
of a vast diversity of cultures and people into her regular mathematics
instruction.
She uses the following steps:
- Relate information about a significant contribution to mathematics
made by a person (or a historical culture) or the use of mathematics in
the person's work or life.
- Provide an explicit link between the math used by this person (or culture)
and the math skills that students are about to learn.
- Teach math skills using appropriate methods.
- Hold students accountable for the cultural information by testing them
on it.
The following lesson plans contain ready-to-use examples of the first
two steps.
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