(Ethno)mathematics as discourse

Ethnomathematics and Cooperativism

Ethnomathematics is generally concerned with the resolution of practical problems and thus it is natural to investigate how this new science can be combined with cooperativism in order to foster sustained economic development. It is maintained that one way of developing this kind of investigation would include some business mathematics, informal logic and practical ethics. A project, implemente...

Ethnomathematics : Concept Definition and Research Perspectives

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Ethnomathematics – Challenging Eu- rocentrism in Mathematics Education

I-Slate, Ethnomathematics and Rural Education

The crosscutting project described here based on the revolutionary concept of Probabilistic design [17] and of Ethnomathematics [13] aims to improve literacy in developing countries and regions, with an emphasis on India as the first test focussing on grades 1-5. Driving the I-Slate design are the pioneering principles trading off probability for energy, while educational pedagogy and practice ...

Tense as Discourse Anaphor

In this paper, I consider a range of English expressions and show that their context-dependency can be characterized in terms of two properties: 1. they specify entities in an evolving model of the discourse that the listener is constructing; 2. the particular entity specified depends on another entity in that part of the evolving 'discourse model' that the listener is currently attending to. S...