Culturally Centered Education
The mark of the true master is that he sees his art in everything and is able to arrive at a masterpiece regardless of the path that he starts on. The same is true for Afrikan mathematics, in that we are able to start with the wrong answer in order to arrive at the correct answer.
Students know that they can often check their answers for correctness by substituting their answer back into the original problem or equation. Most will choose not to do this, however, since it is time consuming. But
Up to that point I was an average student. I gave minimal effort in school to the point that every year I often wondered how I had made it past the previous grade. At that time I was much more concerned with playing basketball, riding my bike, and playing Sega Genesis. So you can imagine my surprise when the results of the assessment came in and I discovered that I had scored higher than many of my friends and classmates! Here I was, this mediocre student who had just scored higher than some of the smartest students in my class. I was excited. Although I had never cared before, now the possibility of taking advanced courses was giving me a sense of pride and confidence in my own abilities.