I-Slate, Ethnomathematics and Rural Education

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 – Challenging Eu- rocentrism in Mathematics Education

From Ethnomathematics to Ethnocomputing: indigenous algorithms in traditional context and contemporary simulation

Ethnomathematics faces two challenges: first, it must investigate the mathematical ideas in cultural practices that are often assumed to be unrelated to math. Second, even if we are successful in finding this previously unrecognized mathematics, applying this to children’s education may be difficult. In this essay, we will describe the use of computational media to help address both of these ch...

Does ‘African mathematics’ facilitate access to mathematics? Towards an ongoing critical analysis of ethnomathematics in a South African context

Mosibudi Mangena, the Minister of Science and Technology, said in an address to the Annual Congress of the South African Mathematical Society at the University of the Potchefstroom, November 2, 2004: “There is one thing we need to address before anything else. We need to increase the number of young people, particularly blacks and women, who are able to successfully complete the first course in...

Anthropology and Education

Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts—Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth—using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a r...