Judith Hankes, Associate Professor, teaches mathematics methods
and classroom research courses. She is the author of numerous
articles dealing with multi-cultural education issues and
mathematics. Her dissertation, Native American Pedagogy and
Cognitive Based Mathematics Instruction, is available through
Garland Press.
Dr. Hankes' teaching career spans thirty years and includes
primary level classroom teaching, counseling of at-risk high
school students, coordinating gifted and talented programs,
and mathematics in-service education for public and tribal
schools nationally. She is also the founder and co-director
of the UW Oshkosh Intertribal Pre-College Program.
Dr. Hankes is also the co-editor of two books, Changing Faces
of Mathematics: Perspectives of Indigenous People of North
America (National Council of Teachers of Mathmatics) and Using
Native American Legends to Teach Mathematics (Honor Press)
and the co-author of Lost and Found and Found Again (Whales
Library), a primary level mathematics curriculum resource
text and game.
