ETHNOMATHEMATICS AND

MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

Proceedings of the 10

th

International Congress of Mathematics Education

Copenhagen

Discussion Group 15

Ethnomathematics

edited by

Franco Favilli

Dipartimento di Matematica

Università di Pisa

Tipografia Editrice Pisana

Pisa

Published with the financial contribution of

the Italian Ministry of Education, University and R

esearch and

the Department of Mathematics of the University of

Pisa (Italy)

within the National Interest Research Project “Diff

iculties in mathematics

teaching/learning” – Grant n. 2001015958.

ISBN: 978-88-8250-069-1

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Contents

Introduction.......................................

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........ III

Franco Favilli

Preface............................................

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.............. V

Ubiratan D’Ambrosio

Foreword...........................................

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..........XI

Bill Barton

Occurrence of typical cultural behaviours in an ari

thmetic

lesson: how to cope?...............................

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...... 1

Pierre Clanché and Bernard Sarrazy

Multicultural classrooms: contexts for much mathema

tics

teaching and learning..............................

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..... 9

Philip C. Clarkson

Notes on teacher education: an ethnomathematical

perspective ........................................

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.......... 17

Maria do Carmo Santos Domite

Quantitative and spatial representations among work

ing

class adults from Rio de Janeiro...................

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Maria Cecilia de Castello Branco Fantinato

Intercultural mathematics education: comments about

a didactic proposal ................................

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..... 39

Franco Favilli and Stefania Tintori

The electronic yupana: a didactic resource from an

ancient

mathematical tool..................................

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..... 49

Giuseppe Fiorentino and Franco Favilli