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Ethnomathematics

Index Ethnomathematics

In mathematics education, ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between mathematics and culture. [1]

66 relations: Addison-Wesley, Alphabet, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Anti-bias curriculum, Arabic numerals, Astronomy, Batak, Batik, Belgian French, Chess, Claudia Zaslavsky, Critical pedagogy, Cultural imperialism, Culturally relevant teaching, Culture, Digit (anatomy), Draughts, Epistemology, Ethnocomputing, Eulerian path, Eurocentrism, Finger-counting, Fractal, Fraction (mathematics), Generative art, Go (game), Graph theory, Hokky Situngkir, Informal mathematics, Integer, Islamic Golden Age, Japanese mathematics, Karl Menninger (mathematics), Latin, Mancala, Mathematics, Mathematics and art, Mathematics education, Mesopotamia, Multiculturalism, Mysticism, Nine men's morris, Nursery rhyme, Octal, Old English, Oware, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Plane symmetry, Polynesia, Postmodernity, ..., Progressivism, Pseudoscience, Quipu, Reader's Digest, Real number, Richard Askey, Roman numerals, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Social justice, Swiss French, Symmetry, The Christian Science Monitor, Tic-tac-toe, Ubiratàn D'Ambrosio, Yohanes Surya, Yuki people. Expand index (16 more) »

Addison-Wesley

Addison-Wesley is a publisher of textbooks and computer literature.

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Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) that is used to write one or more languages based upon the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.

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Anti-bias curriculum

The anti-bias curriculum is an activist approach to educational curricula which attempts to challenge prejudices such as racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, homophobia, and other forms of kyriarchy; the approach is favoured by civil rights organisations such as the Anti-Defamation League.

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Arabic numerals

Arabic numerals, also called Hindu–Arabic numerals, are the ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, based on the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today.

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Astronomy

Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

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Batak

Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia who speak Batak languages.

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Batik

Batik (Javanese: ꦧꦠꦶꦏ꧀) is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique originated from Indonesia.

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Belgian French

Belgian French (français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois and Lorrain (Gaumais).

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Claudia Zaslavsky

Claudia Zaslavsky (January 12, 1917 – January 13, 2006) was an American educator and ethnomathematician.

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Critical pedagogy

Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that has developed and applied concepts from critical theory and related traditions to the field of education and the study of culture.

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Cultural imperialism

Cultural imperialism comprises the cultural aspects of imperialism.

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Culturally relevant teaching

Culturally relevant or responsive teaching is a pedagogy grounded in teachers' displaying cultural competence: skill at teaching in a cross-cultural or multicultural setting.

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Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

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Digit (anatomy)

A digit is one of several most distal parts of a limb, such as fingers or toes, present in many vertebrates.

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Draughts

Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English) is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.

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Ethnocomputing

Ethnocomputing is the study of the interactions between computing and culture.

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Eulerian path

In graph theory, an Eulerian trail (or Eulerian path) is a trail in a finite graph which visits every edge exactly once.

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Eurocentrism

Eurocentrism (also Western-centrism) is a worldview centered on and biased towards Western civilization.

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Finger-counting

Finger-counting, or dactylonomy, is the act of counting along one's fingers.

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Fractal

In mathematics, a fractal is an abstract object used to describe and simulate naturally occurring objects.

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Fraction (mathematics)

A fraction (from Latin fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts.

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Generative art

Generative art refers to art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system.

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Go (game)

Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent.

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Graph theory

In mathematics, graph theory is the study of graphs, which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects.

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Hokky Situngkir

Hokky Situngkir (born February 7, 1978) is an Indonesian scientist who researches complexity theory at Surya University.

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Informal mathematics

Informal mathematics, also called naïve mathematics, has historically been the predominant form of mathematics at most times and in most cultures, and is the subject of modern ethno-cultural studies of mathematics.

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Integer

An integer (from the Latin ''integer'' meaning "whole")Integer 's first literal meaning in Latin is "untouched", from in ("not") plus tangere ("to touch").

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Islamic Golden Age

The Islamic Golden Age is the era in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century, during which much of the historically Islamic world was ruled by various caliphates, and science, economic development and cultural works flourished.

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Japanese mathematics

denotes a distinct kind of mathematics which was developed in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1867).

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Karl Menninger (mathematics)

Karl Menninger (October 6, 1898 – October 2, 1963) was a German teacher of and writer about mathematics.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Mancala

Mancala is one of the oldest games played.

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Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

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Mathematics and art

Mathematics and art are related in a variety of ways.

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Mathematics education

In contemporary education, mathematics education is the practice of teaching and learning mathematics, along with the associated scholarly research.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region in West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, parts of Northern Saudi Arabia, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders.

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Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is a term with a range of meanings in the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and in colloquial use.

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Mysticism

Mysticism is the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them.

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Nine men's morris

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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Octal

The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Oware

Oware is an Ashanti abstract strategy game among the Mancala family of board games (pit and pebble games) played worldwide with slight variations as to the layout of the game, number of players and strategy of play.

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Pedagogia do Oprimido), written by educator Paulo Freire, proposes a pedagogy with a new relationship between teacher, student, and society.

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Plane symmetry

A plane symmetry is a symmetry of a pattern in the Euclidean plane: that is, a transformation of the plane that carries any directioned lines to lines and preserves many different distances.

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Polynesia

Polynesia (from πολύς polys "many" and νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Postmodernity

Postmodernity (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Quipu

Quipu (also spelled khipu) or talking knots, were recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures, particularly in the region of Andean South America.

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Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.

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Real number

In mathematics, a real number is a value of a continuous quantity that can represent a distance along a line.

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Richard Askey

Richard "Dick" Allen Askey (born June 4, 1933) is an American mathematician, known for his expertise in the area of special functions.

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Roman numerals

The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.

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Sing a Song of Sixpence

"Sing a Song of Sixpence" is a well-known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th century.

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Social justice

Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society.

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Swiss French

Swiss French (français de Suisse) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy.

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Symmetry

Symmetry (from Greek συμμετρία symmetria "agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement") in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition.

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Tic-tac-toe

Tic-tac-toe (also known as noughts and crosses or Xs and Os) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players, X and O, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid.

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Ubiratàn D'Ambrosio

Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (born December 8, 1932 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics.

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Yohanes Surya

Yohanes Surya (born in Jakarta, November 6, 1963) is an Indonesian physicist and coach of Indonesian Physics Team for the Olympiad (TOFI) since 1993.

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Yuki people

The Yuki (also known as Yukiah) are an indigenous people of California, whose traditional territory is around Round Valley, Mendocino County.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnomathematics

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