Garma Maths Curriculum

Bala ga LiliAn Intercultural Educational Space

Ŋalapal'mi

Diagram by Helen Verran

“Ganma”Moiety – YirritjaClan – GumatjPainted by Yalmay Yunupiŋu, 1989

Painting by Dhuwarrwarr Marika

LOCATIONMiny’tjiManikayDhärukDhukarr

Directions maps

2D3DTransforming shapes

Yolŋu Yothu

ManikayTeaching KnowledgeStoryLawDirections

Miny’tjiPatternDesignShapesColourMap

GakalShapesSongsPaintingsRelationshipsDesignsPatternStoryKnowledge

BundurrCultureLanguageSongsPatternsShapesDirections

GurrutuMarriageLandSongsLawRelationshipLanguageMälk

RelationshipMarriagePatternShapesLanguage

BäpurruSongsLawStoryLanguage Painting

DjuŋunyRelationshipMarriageStoryLawPaternlanguage

DhärukSongsStoryActionsLawKnowledgeTeaching pattern shapes designs

Diagram by Nalwarri

YindipuluRomManikay ga BuŋgulYirralkaDhulaŋ gurrutu - number

Names & patterns(numeration)Measurement in various forms:

counting, money, length area, volume, mass

(quantification) Manipulating value

in numbers(arithmetic)Expressions of recursion

djalkiri - location

Expressions of spatiality

Galtha WorkshopsRomManikay & buŋgulYirralkaWäŋaMiny’tji Dhäruk

SpaceDirectionMaps

Painting by Ŋalawurr Munuŋgurr

Yolŋu gumurr-nyena

Yambirrpa'

Banda Wulwat ga Bathirri

Looking for the fish

Peer tutoring

Lurrmu'yun gapu

Gapunga

Diagram adapted from a diagram by Richard Barwick , Singing the Land, Signing the Land by Helen Watson, Deakin University, 1989