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Women Art and Geometry in Southern Africa by Paulus Gerdes, 1998-02
Drawings from Angola: Living Mathematics by Paulus Gerdes, 2007-05-18
Count on Your Fingers African Style by Claudia Zaslavsky, 2000-04
Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics (Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science)
Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures by Marcia Ascher, 2002-08-05
Awakening of Geometrical Thought in Early Culture by Paulus Gerdes, 2003-01
Antropologia del numero: Categorie cognitive e forme sociali (La ricerca folklorica) (Italian Edition)
African and African-American contributions to mathematics by Beatrice Lumpkin, 1985
Lunda geometry: Designs, polyominoes, patterns, symmetries by Paulus Gerdes, 1996
Sipatsi: Technology, art, and geometry in Inhambane by Paulus Gerdes, 1994
African Pythagoras: A study in culture and mathematics education by Paulus Gerdes, 1994

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Useful Fools: Ethnomathematics - What Next?
February 22, 2003. ethnomathematics What Next? But some folks are upset about it, because of its Western roots. So now we get ethnomathematics!
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Extractions: Click for Most Recent Articles Mathematics is the same everywhere in the world. It is a true universal language. But some folks are upset about it, because of its Western roots. So now we get Ethnomathematics! From the New York Times (free subscription required), we learn: The only possibility of building up a planetary civilization depends on restoring the dignity of the losers.'' Robert N. Proctor, who teaches the history of science at Pennsylvania State University, says he wants to counter the notion ''that the West is the be all and end all'' when it comes to mathematical studies. ''After all,'' he adds, ''all math is ethnomath not just African kinship numerics or Peruvian bead counting, but also the C.I.A.'s number-crunching cryptology and Reaganomics.''
The Word Spy - Ethnomathematics
ethnomathematics (ETH.noh.math.uh.mat.iks; th as in thin) n. Mathematics as practiced by nonWestern ethnic groups and marginalized groups within Western
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Extractions: Eglash's research fits in squarely with " ethnomathematics ," a term coined in the '80s and usually used to describe the mathematical practices of smaller or indigenous cultural groups. While ethnomathematicians have studied Mayan calendars and even boomerang flights, a unifying theme is an emphasis on mathematical accomplishments outside the Western canon. Advocates see ethnomathematics as a useful way to make math more expansive and relevant to students from different backgrounds. Critics characterize it as a diversion from numbers that could lead to softer standards. Native American Mathematics appears at a time when interest in ethnomathematics is on the increase. Educational projects devoted to developing mathematics materials relevant to the Native American heritage, style of learning, and economic environment are currently under way at Northern Arizona University, Oklahoma State University, and the Fort Ojibway School in Minnesota, to name but a few. An International Study Group on
ENC Online Ethnomathematics And Its Place In The History And
ethnomathematics and its Place in the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics. Our project relies primarily on developing the concept of ethnomathematics.
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Ethnomathematics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
ethnomathematics. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Subjects which are studied in ethnomathematics include but are not limited to
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Extractions: Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematics that considers the culture in which those mathematics arise, one could say the cultural study of mathematics. This study contributes both to the understanding of these cultures, but, reciprocally, to the understanding of mathematics. Subjects which are studied in ethnomathematics include but are not limited to: edit Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas by Marcia Ascher, ISBN 0412989417 edit This article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it Views Personal tools Navigation Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Special pages This page was last modified 06:32, 4 Apr 2004. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see for details).
Ethnomathematics - Encyclopedia Article About Ethnomathematics. Free Access, No
encyclopedia article about ethnomathematics. ethnomathematics in Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia. ethnomathematics.
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Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematics Mathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space; more informally, one might say it is the study of 'figures and numbers'. In the formalist view, it is the investigation of axiomatically defined abstract structures using logic and mathematical notation; other views are described in Philosophy of mathematics. Mathematics might be seen as a simple extension of spoken and written languages, with an extremely precisely defined vocabulary and grammar, for the purpose of describing and exploring physical and conceptual relationships. Click the link for more information. that considers the culture For other uses of culture see Culture (disambiguation). The word culture comes from the Latin root colere, (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor). In general it refers to human activity; different definitions of culture reflect different theories for understanding, or criteria for valuing, human activity. In 1952 Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of over 200 different definitions of
Ethnomathematics
ethnomathematics. ethnomathematics is of mathematics. Subjects which are studied in ethnomathematics include but are not limited to
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Extractions: Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematics that considers the culture in which those mathematics arise, one could say the cultural study of mathematics. This study contributes both to the understanding of these cultures, but, reciprocally, to the understanding of mathematics. Subjects which are studied in ethnomathematics include but are not limited to: Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas by Marcia Ascher, ISBN 0412989417 This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it.
Ethnomathematics General - Mathematics And The Liberal Arts
ethnomathematics General Mathematics and the Liberal Arts. Laterally related topics The Stone Builders and The Jewish Tradition. ethnomathematics. Hist.
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Extractions: Laterally related topics: The Stone Builders and The Jewish Tradition The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Many pages focus on ethnomathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. The notes in these pages are intended as much to evoke ideas as to indicate what the books and articles are about. They are not intended as reviews. However, some items have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews , published by The American Mathematical Society. When the mathematical review (MR) number and reviewer are known to the author of these pages, they are given as part of the bibliographic citation. Subscribing institutions can access the more recent MR reviews online through MathSciNet Ascher, Marcia and Ascher, Robert. Ethnomathematics. Hist. of Sci. Number Words Logic Kinship Systems The Aranda ... The Sioux , and The Kpelle of Guinea Make comment on this entry D'Ambrosio, Ubiratan. Ethnomathematics: an explanation.
Ethnomathematics Approach To Teaching Language Minority Students
An ethnomathematics Approach to Teaching Language Minority Students. An ethnomathematics approach to the curriculum can be a vehicle for achieving such a goal.
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Extractions: books conference articles columns ... home Chapter 11 of Effective Language Education Practices and Native Language Survival Return to Table of Contents David M. Davison Limited English proficient (LEP) students experience difficulties in learning mathematics that may have little to do with difficulties in processing mathematical ideas. When these LEP students are from different cultures, speak languages other than English as their primary language, and have preferred differences in cognitive processing, the typical approach to organized mathematics instruction observed in American classrooms today is not appropriate. An ethnomathematics approach to the curriculum is advocated in this paper as a means of addressing this concern. D'Ambrosio (1985) defines 'ethnomathematics' as the mathematics needed by a particular subgroup of the population, be it an occupational group or a cultural group. Ethnomathematics includes curricular relevance, but is much more than building a curriculum around the local interests and culture of the learners. This local focus can become limited to the mathematics the students want to study, which they see related to either their traditional or emerging roles. While it is important not to ignore this local perspective, such an approach can overlook the organization of mathematical ideas and preclude the development of a structured mathematics curriculum. The goal is to provide students with mathematics content and approaches that will enable them to successfully master modern mathematics. An ethnomathematics approach to the curriculum can be a vehicle for achieving such a goal.
Ascher, M.: Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration Of Ideas Across Cultures.
She is the coauthor of Code of the Quipu A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture and the author of ethnomathematics A Multicultural View of Mathematical
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Extractions: Introduction [HTML] or [PDF format] Mathematics Elsewhere is a fascinating and important contribution to a global view of mathematics. Presenting mathematical ideas of peoples from a variety of small-scale and traditional cultures, it humanizes our view of mathematics and expands our conception of what is mathematical. Through engaging examples of how particular societies structure time, reach decisions about the future, make models and maps, systematize relationships, and create intriguing figures, Marcia Ascher demonstrates that traditional cultures have mathematical ideas that are far more substantial and sophisticated than is generally acknowledged. Malagasy divination rituals, for example, rely on complex algebraic algorithms. And some cultures use calendars far more abstract and elegant than our own. Ascher also shows that certain concepts assumed to be universalthat time is a single progression, for instance, or that equality is a static relationshipare not. The Basque notion of equivalence, for example, is a dynamic and temporal one not adequately captured by the familiar equal sign. Other ideas taken to be the exclusive province of professionally trained Western mathematicians are, in fact, shared by people in many societies.
Ethnomathematics Digital Library
RELATED WEBSITES EARLYREADING.INFO ethnomathematics DIGITAL LIBRARY NEARStar PACIFIC MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE PACIFIC RESOURCES ONLINE READING AND
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Extractions: The Ethnomathematics Digital Library (EDL), located at www.ethnomath.org , is a resource network and interactive learning community for ethnomathematics, with emphasis on the indigenous mathematics of the Pacific region. The National Science Foundation (NSF) [ www.nsf.gov ] is extensively involved in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education (STEM), and has funded the EDL as a collections project of the National STEM Digital Library (NSDL) [ nsdl.org ] under award number DUE-0121749.
Ethnomathematics
ethnomathematics a World of Numbers. It is brought to you by the ethnomathematics Digital Library and CSIROs Double Helix Science Club.
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Extractions: They developed a counting system that used dots, lines, and a drawing of a shell. Each dot represented one, a line represented five, and the shell represented zero. These symbols were grouped together to form a base 20 number system. The system appears more complicated than the decimal system, and also has a strong link to astronomy.
Ethno
ethnomathematics. d. Pesquisa em Etnomatemática / Research in ethnomathematics GEPEm / USP. Bibliography Beliot ethnomathematics Bibliography. What
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LookSmart - Directory - Ethnomathematics
ethnomathematics Discover the study of enthnomathematics with these guides and overviews. Directory Listings About. ethnomathematics
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WWW Virtual Library: Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology: Ethnomathematics
ethnomathematics. Links Search for Cultural Anthropology ethnomathematics at, Amazon DogPile - Google - Liszt - MetaCrawler - WiseNut.
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Ethnomathematics: An African American Perspective On Developing Women In Mathema
ethnomathematics An African American Perspective On Developing Women In Mathematics. Gloria F. Gilmer. Math Tech Milwaukee. Mathematics And ethnomathematics.
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Extractions: Ethnomathematics: An African American Perspective On Developing Women In Mathematics Gloria F. Gilmer Math Tech Milwaukee This paper was written for the NCTM publication - Changing the Faces of Mathematics: Perspective on Gender. Hence, the paper is at the intersection of research and practice. The paper also speaks directly to issues of equality, inclusivity and accountability. The author borrows from gender, ethnomathematics and social context research to guide practice in mathematics teaching and learning. Specifically, the paper focuses on three principles of feminist pedagogy useful for developing mathematical power in all students but especially women students. In addition, the paper presents strategies found to be effective for discerning mathematical ideas in ones own surroundings. Many strategies presented stem from research methodologies of ethnomathematicians. These methods expand and extend ones vision of what mathematics is , who creates it and in what kind of environment mathematical thinking flourishes for women in general and African American women in particular. Mathematics is an important human endeavour and has many educational values aside from its technological importance. First, it offers a vast number of structures such as numbers, algorithms, shapes, ratios, functions and data that are useful in understanding physical realities. Second, mathematics is a human activity built upon intuitive understandings and agreed conventions that are not eternally fixed and that its frontier is covered by many unanswered questions. Third, mathematics encourages settling arguments by evidence and proof. Finally, mathematics demonstrates how important it is to subject a familiar thing to detailed study and to study something that seems hopelessly intricate (Buck 1965).
Common Sense Or Good Sense
Common Sense or Good Sense? ethnomathematics and the Prospects for. a Gramscian Politics of Adults Mathematics Education. Diana Coben.
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Extractions: Common Sense or Good Sense? Ethnomathematics and the Prospects for a Gramscian Politics of Adults' Mathematics Education Diana Coben Goldsmiths College, University of London Abstract This paper looks at Antonio Gramsci's concepts of 'common sense' and 'good sense' in the light of recent research and practice in adults learning mathematics, focussing particularly on issues around ethnomathematics, and explores the prospects for a Gramscian politics of adults mathematics education. Introduction Mathematical knowledge is socially powerful: it enjoys high prestige and being 'mathematically knowledgeable' is often treated as an indicator of general intelligence, as evidenced by the widespread use of mathematics in entry tests for employment and employment training; mathematics is precise, rigorous, a powerful discipline in its own right. Common sense, by contrast, is regarded - or rather, it is often disregarded - as a low-level, practical, 'everyday' phenomenon, hardly noticed, except when its absence is suddenly revealed in the actions of an otherwise apparently intelligent, capable adult. What then is the connection between mathematics and common sense and where does Gramsci come into the picture? For me, the connection between mathematics and common sense has long been a source of interest. As an adult numeracy tutor in the 1970s and 1980s I was aware that there seemed to be a strong connection in students' minds between those elements of mathematics they felt comfortable with and what they called common sense and my later research, with Gillian Thumpston, on adults' mathematics life histories, bore this out (Coben and Thumpston 1995, 1996). We found that some adults consistently undervalue the mathematics they can do, dismissing it as 'just common sense', while regarding as mathematics only that which they cannot do. Mathematics was thus effectively rendered invisible, a phenomenon also noted by Mary Harris (1997).
Ethnomathematics
Interesting article from the Australian Academy of Science comparing western counting methods to nonwestern, called ethnomathematics ethnomathematics.
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ethnomathematics Information Blast. ethnomathematics. Subjects which are studied in ethnomathematics include but are not limited to
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Extractions: Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematics that considers the culture in which those mathematics arise, one could say the cultural study of mathematics. This study contributes both to the understanding of these cultures, but, reciprocally, to the understanding of mathematics. Subjects which are studied in ethnomathematics include but are not limited to: Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas by Marcia Ascher, ISBN 0412989417 Wikipedia is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
ETHNOMATHEMATICS
ethnomathematics AN OVERVIEW*. Ubiratan DAmbrosio. The idea of ethnomathematics came as a broader view on how mathematics relates to the real world.
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Extractions: Ubiratan DAmbrosio A Background From History The idea of ethnomathematics came as a broader view on how mathematics relates to the real world. Mathematics is an intellectual instrument created by the human species to help in resolving situations presented in everyday life and to describe and explain the real world. Like every living species, humans look for individual survival and continuation of the species. But differently than any other species, humans look also for explanations of facts and phenomena, which can be seen and felt. Thanks to this, humans develop new manners of getting from nature what is needed for survival and pleasure, and of transcending their space and time. How did these characteristics develop in the human species? This is one of the major questions facing current scholarship. Answers point to understanding the capability of humans developing language, tools, art, music, humor and mathematics. Among all the species, humans are the only that developed language. The human species is unique, among all the animal species, to create agriculture, and it is the only one to develop a sense of past and future. From prehistoric ages, humans have been accumulating knowledge to respond to their drives and needs. Of course, the responses vary from region to region, from culture to culture.

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