February 27, 2021

How Indigenous Groups Raise Youth Who Are Passionate About Math

Author: Julia Brodsky

Every summer, something wondrous happens in the remote areas of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Families travel for hours to join a week-long gathering celebrating math, friendship, and Indigenous culture. They look forward to a math camp organized by the Alliance of the Indigenous Math Circles (AIMC). The program, which has been in operation for more than eight years, grew out of the Navajo Nation Math Circles. The Alliance arranges mathematicians' visits to schools, runs math teachers