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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

My name is Small Number. This is a story that I’ve heard from my grandmother and that she heard from her grandmother. It is about an old totem pole built by my ancestors on a beach close to our ...

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. He lives in a big city with his mother and his older sister Perfect Number. Every Sunday afternoon, Small Number does his math homework.

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 ...

Small Number is a young boy who gets into a lot of mischief. With his sister Perfect Number he visits their Grandma who lives in a small village on their Nation’s traditional territory. Small Number ...

This is not a traditional Sliammon story but one that could be told in any First Nations communty. The story appealed to us because of it descriptive language and presented a challenge to translate.

Welcome to the 2015 SFU Academic Summer Camp for Aboriginal High School Students! The camp is taking place at SFU Burnaby Campus between July 2-31, 2015. The camp is organized and supported by the ...

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 ...