Lávvu and mathematics

• Main Authors: Nordkild, Siv Ingrid, Hætta, Ole Einar Isaksen
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: kola peninsula; Sámi
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31498

Poster presented at CERME11 - The Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Utrecht, Netherlands, 6-10 February 2019. Sápmi is the Sámi term for the Sámi homeland and society, the land area extends from Central Norway, Sweden and Finland to the Kola Peninsula in Russia. In Norway, the Sámi as a population has status as an indigenous people, which means that the Sámi have the right to develop their own culture and language on their own premises. Traditionally the Sámi people has lived as hunters and gatherers and in connection with this, they lived a nomadic life. The lávvu is a temporary dwelling, and the design of it reflects the Sámi culture as a community. Families travel in small groups, and the lávvu is designed so that even one person could quickly set it up with little effort. Teachers at a Sámi school in northern part of Sápmi in Norway have for several years developed teaching units for all grades in lower secondary school with lávvu as an overall theme. When students attend their last year at lower secondary school, they develop their own teaching unit in mathematics with the lávvu . This study builds on research by Fyhn et al. (2016), Fyhn, Meaney, Nystad, and Jannok Nutti (2017), and Jannok Nutti et al. (2015), where the Sámi culture founds basis for mathematics in school. The research question investigated hereis: How do students use the lávvu in mathematics teaching?