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Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnomathematics

2000
The term ‘ethnomathematics’ has two distinct meanings currently in use. D’Ambrosio (1990), who coined the term, takes it to mean a general anthropology of mathematical thought and practice. In that sense, the word applies to the connections between mathematics and culture in every geographic area, every human group, and in every historical moment on ...
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Ethnomathematics and symbolic thought

Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik, 1999
This paper deals with the following aspects of the culture of the Dogons (Mali): the specific mythological context and the related cognitive system; fundamental poles in the Dogon numerical symbology; the density of 5’s significance; the spiral as a coreography of thought; ethnomathematics “logosymbols” as “event” and social meaning; educational ...
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Ethnomathematics

2019
Ubiratan D’Ambrósio, Gelsa Knijnik
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Learning Mathematics Using an Ethnomathematics Approach: A Systematic Literature Review

Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 2023

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Ethnomathematics as a Human Right

2011
This paper considers the field of enquiry called ethnomathematics and its role within mathematics education. I elaborate on the shifted meaning of 'ethnomathematics'. This "enriched meaning" impacts on the philosophy of mathematics education. Currently, the concept is no longer reserved for the so called 'nonliterate' people, but also includes diverse ...
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Ethnomathematics and the limits of culture

2013
Research in ethnomathematics has become predominantly focused on "local cultures" and non-scholarized forms of mathematics, thus becoming less a critical reflection on the sociopolitical roots of academic mathematics and the place it occupies in the popular imagination and in schooling, and more of a learning device.
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Ethnomathematics

2014
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General remarks on ethnomathematics [PDF]

Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik, 2001
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Ethnomathematics of the Inkas

2008
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In Conclusion: Ethnomathematics

2017
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