Integrating multicultural activities into mathematics instruction at all grade levels helps to foster appropriate and desirable attitudes about mathematics and its role in our culture. In particular, multicultural activities can be instrumental in removing the stigma of mathematics as being an elitist discipline pursued by a select few.
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