Abstract
In the first chapter in the part on community challenges, we discuss the use of the mathematics register in te reo Māori in the wider community. Māori radio broadcasting had begun during the Second World War but increased significantly from the 1980s. After several attempts, a dedicated Māori television station began broadcasting in 2004. These public broadcasts provided opportunities for the mathematics register to be heard outside of school situations. Both radio and television programmes broadcast in te reo Māori were monitored for a two-week period, and the number of times mathematical terms were used was recorded. This research suggested that only a limited number of terms appeared regularly in public broadcasts, and some of these were non-standardised transliterations from English. Two ex-students described in interviews and surveys the circumstances in which they used the mathematics register in te reo Māori after they left Te Koutu. It suggests that even when in an English-medium environment these ex-students relied on te reo Māori when they were discussing mathematics.
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Meaney, T., Trinick, T., Fairhall, U. (2012). Using the Mathematics Register Outside the Classroom. In: Collaborating to Meet Language Challenges in Indigenous Mathematics Classrooms. Mathematics Education Library, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1994-1_8
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