Rainforest Mathematics

This paper addresses the contested way that ethnomathematics has sometimes been received by mathematicians and others and what that disagreement might suggest about issues in mathematics education; namely, (a) the relation of ethnomathematics to academic mathematics; (b) recent efforts to reform sec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jeremy Kilpatrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/jmetc/article/view/647