Maths Digital Resources

View Enquiry Questions related to Maths and corresponding resources (below) or view resources by title further down the page.

Griffith University would like to acknowledge the important role of the PLC3 cluster schools in generating questions that informed the video content. These Gold Coast educators were curious about how to respectfully embed Kombumerri histories and culture sensitively into the classroom.

Now educators can utilise their professional expertise to embed this knowledge into unit planning relevant to their year level, learning area and school context. Likewise, Griffith University aims to incorporate these perspectives into teaching practices and increase awareness and appreciation of local cultural knowledge and recognise the Kombumerri people’s custodianship of the land on which our Gold Coast campus is located.

Maths resources respond to the following Enquiry Questions –

Q#	Enquiry Questions related to Maths
51.	How do you count in Yugumbeh language? N/A
52.	Names of the days of the week? N/A
53.	How do you count in Yugumbeh language? N/A
53.	Are calendars in the Indigenous culture? N/A
54.	Looking at traditional counting and how it was used. N/A
55.	Traditional number names and symbols. N/A
56.	How Indigenous people measure time? Corresponding resource – How did Time Differ?
57.	Is there a specific language of direction? E.g. moving from place to place. N/A
58.	How did the Kombumerri people calculate distance? N/A
59.	Did the Kombumerri people use the concept of shape? N/A
60.	How did the Kombumerri people represent quantities? N/A
61.	How were tides used and measured? N/A

Video title relevant to Maths

The video content has been provided by Uncle Graham Dillon, his three grandchildren: Max Dillon, Justine Dillon, and Emerald Brewer; and his two great nieces: Tess Blundell and Madeleine Pugin. All contributors are members of an extended family network and descendants of Andrew and Jenny Graham. The knowledge and stories shared by these contributors have been passed down through generations of families and provide insight into how Country has always been a place of teaching, research and learning for Kombumerri people. While Griffith University and the Department of Education acknowledge that Kombumerri people own the Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property contained in the videos, they understand that versions of the knowledge and stories shared in the videos may vary from that of others within the broader Kombumerri community.

9.	How did Time Differ?