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Aboriginal children and mathematics.(Education)

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| November 01, 2003 | Partington, Geoffrey | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A CAUTION

WHAT FOLLOWS mainly concerns children who are ostensibly the beneficiaries of an Aboriginal education especially shaped to meet their distinctive needs. Large numbers of children who today identify as or are classified as Aboriginal have English as their mother tongue and experience an education little different from that of non-Aboriginal Australian children. For various reasons their average level of educational attainment is somewhat lower than that for comparable non-Aboriginal children. However, it is not their problems, but those of children who have an Aboriginal mother tongue or retain elements of traditional beliefs and customs that are ...

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