Critical mathematical competence for active citizenship within the modern world
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Ali, Sikunder.
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In this paper, I aim to contribute, through a state-of-the-art literature review, to the exploration of critical features that mathematics as a tool offers for reading and writing the world. Our world is crowded by scientific and technological cultural practices, among which mathematics constitutes an essential and integral part. In this review, I look at interactions between developments within mathematics as a discipline (especially mathematics as applied in various fields such as statistics, economics, finance, engineering) and mathematics as a subject taught in schools, specifically the secondary and higher secondary levels. The product of this critical review is to formulate a set of proposals meant to bring a critical eye to bear on mathematical structures taking away citizens’ critical capacity to read and write the world. These structures render citizens docile, inactive, and unable to make their input into the authoritative characteristics that these mathematical structures achieve through the processes of abstraction and objectifications within the context of the constitution of the modern world through actions of techno-science and technology.
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2015
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Competencias | Culturales | Documental | Educación Matemática crítica | Formativos | Resolución de problemas
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Proceedings of the eighth international mathematics education and society conference (volumen 2)
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Greer, Brian y Mukhopadhyay, Swapna
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243 - 254
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