Feast on Pi: An Indigenous Pi Day Celebration

We welcome community members, parents, students of all ages, and educators to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center for a FREE Indigenous Pi Day Celebration!

Join us anytime throughout the day and indulge in delicious food from the Indian Pueblo Kitchen, with prizes, hands-on activities, and travel support for families!

Meet Indigenous Mathematicians, Artists, Dancers and represent your community. 

If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to our program coordinator at jonnieawoody@epscor.unm.edu.

Tentative Agenda

9:00 am - 9:20 am 

Welcome, light breakfast and refreshments will be served.

Join in on our Pi walk and win some prizes!

9:30 am - 10:30 am                                     

Opening Keynote: Jessica Benally 

10:30 am - 12:00 pm                                 

Fun Hands-on activities and join in our Pi walk and win some prizes! 

10:30 am - 12:00 pm                                 

Concurrent “talks” and workshops open to all.

11:45 am – 12:30 pm 

Join us for lunch and enjoy the Indian Taco Buffet 

12:00 PM - 12:15 pm                                               

Pi Walk and win a some prizes!  

12: 30 PM - 1:30 pm                                  

Afternoon Keynote speaker: Carlos LopezLeiva

1:30 PM - 3:00 pm                                                     

Fun Hands-on activities and join in our Pi walk and win some prizes! Try our afternoon gourmet popcorn snack bar.

1:30 PM - 3:00 pm                                                     

Concurrent “talks” and workshops open to all. Try our afternoon gourmet popcorn snack bar.

3:00 PM – 3:30 pm

Closing the day, final prizes and family support distribution 

About our Keynote Speakers: 

Jessica Benally is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences & Human Development program at the Berkeley School of Education. Her research focuses on designing embodied interventions that support all students in their mathematical learning. Her current project integrates Diné knowledge into mathematics curriculum, leveraging egocentric and allocentric perspectives to deepen students' understanding of an angle as part of a rotation. In the STARR project, participants collaboratively connect the stars of the Náhookos constellation within a constructed planetarium, coordinating multiple perspectives to generate geometric meaning. She is from Tohatchi, New Mexico, and graduated with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico.

Carlos LopezLeiva taught elementary, and secondary school in Guatemala; taught TESOL and bilingual middle school in USA, coordinated math club afterschool program, and was a research fellow at the Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinas/os (CEMELA) in Chicago. 

Some of Dr. Carlos LopezLeiva research interests include: 

• Social construction of cultural and linguistically diverse learners
• dis/ability construction and positioning
• social dimension of teaching, learning, and doing mathematics in in- and out-of-school environments
• critical pedagogy
• decolonizing pedagogies and research
• identities of bilingual speakers and doers of mathematics
• mathematization
• ethnomathematics
• and practitioner and participatory action research.

You can learn more about Dr. Carlos LopezLeiva here: Carlos LópezLeiva, PhD | UNM College of Education & Human Sciences | The University of New Mexico

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