Navajo Math Circles
Documentary | George Csicsery
- SYNOPSIS
Navajo Math Circles follows Navajo students in a lively collaboration with mathematicians. Using a model called math circles, the students stay late after school and assemble over the summer at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, to study mathematics. The math circles approach emphasizes student-centered learning by putting children in charge of exploring mathematics to their own joy and satisfaction.
58 minutes
Release: September 12, 2016
Expiration: September 11, 2020
Distributor: PBS Plus
George Csicsery
Producer/Director
GEORGE PAUL CSICSERY, a writer and independent filmmaker since 1968, was born in Germany in 1948, the son of Hungarian parents. He immigrated to the United States in 1951. He has directed 32 films--dramatic shorts, performance films and documentaries.
Dr. Tatiana Shubin
Educator/Cast
DR. TATIANA SHUBIN is a professor of mathematics at San Jose State University, has established a relationship with the people at the Navajo Nation.A native of the Soviet Union, she grew up in the USSR Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, where she studied with and worked with indigenous peoples such as Kazakhs, Kyrgyz’s, and Uzbeks. Tatiana was herself a student in the Math Circles in her native Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
Dr. Henry Fowler
Native American Advisor/Educator
DR. HENRY FOWLER, (Navajo) is a math and math education professor at Diné College in Tsaile on the Navajo Reservation. He has been teaching math for over 15 years. Dr. Fowler’s Navajo traditional clans are born for Bitter-water and born into Zuni-Edgewater. His maternal grandparents are the Many Goats and his paternal grandparents are the Red-running-into-the-Water.
