Monday, March 15, 2010

Mathematics, culture and Technology

All of us who are taking ED1415 course are given a task to write short synopsis of articles that has something to do with Mathematics in relation of culture and technology. I 've came across with some good websites that I want to share. So here I have listed a brief summary of articles from different websites. Click 'read more' if you are interested and it will direct you to the url.

From an ethnomathematical perspective, instructional technologies should be used to assist teachers and students alike to convey knowledge, to develop and respect the many unique ways of quantifying, comparing, classifying, measuring and explaining day to day phenomena...
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Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematics, which takes into consideration the culture in which mathematics arises. We all have some notions of what ethnomathematics is, but should it be...
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Mathematics in various cultures ; Ancient Babylonian, ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek, Arabic mathematics, Chinese mathematics....
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Teachers and the public in general do not commonly say that mathematics and culture are connected. When teachers do acknowledge a connection, often they engage their students in multicultural activities merely as a curiosity...
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Scholarship and writing about culture and mathematics covers a wide range of topics: the cultural bases for mathematics, mathematics development in different cultures,...

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