Whose mathematics? Our mathematics! A comment on Mariana Leal Ferreira’s book, mapping time, space, and the body
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Lumpkin, Beatrice.
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In her paper in these proceedings and her new book, “Mapping Time, Space, and the Body”, Mariana Leal Ferreira enchants the reader with the creative role that mathematical thinking plays in the lives of Indigenous peoples in Brazil. The Indigenous applications of mathematics make a good starting point for school mathematics. However, the false idea that school mathematics is “white” mathematics remains largely unchallenged. In this commentary, I provide some sources for the multicultural roots of school mathematics.
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2015
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Etnomatemática | Libros de texto | Pensamientos matemáticos | Reflexión sobre la enseñanza | Situado sociocultural
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Proceedings of the eighth international mathematics education and society conference (volumen 3)
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Greer, Brian y Mukhopadhyay, Swapna
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750 - 755
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