Philosophy of mathematics education

Mathematics education

Ethnomathematics

Social science

Connected Mathematics

Philosophy

Sociology

Epistemology

Mathematics

for the learning of mathematics

I. Introductory remarks In this paper we will discuss some basic issues which may lay null ground for an historical approach to null teaching of mathematics in a novel way. Our project relies primarily on developing null concept of ethnomathematics. Our subject lies on null borderline between null history of mathematics and cultural anthropology. We may conceptualize ethnoscience as null study of scientific and, by extension, technological phenomena in direct relation to their social, economic and cultural backgrounds [1]. There has been much research already on ethnoastronomy, ethnobotany, ethnochemistry, and so on. Not much has been done in ethnomathematics, perhaps because people believe in null universality of mathematics. This seems to be harder to sustain as recent research, mainly carried on by anthropologists, shows evidence of practices which are typically mathematical, such as counting, ordering, sorting, measuring and weighing, done in radically different ways than those which are commonly taught i...

Ethnomathematics and its Place in the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics.