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ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF KNOWING (IN) MATHEMATICS

Celebrations of Diversity of Mathematical Practices

Editors:

  1. Swapna Mukhopadhyay

    1. Portland State University, Oregon, USA

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  2. Wolff-Michael Roth

    1. Griffith University, Mt. Gravatt,Queensland, Australia

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education (NDMS, volume 24)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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    1. Celebrating Diversity, Realizing Alternatives

      • Brian Greer, Swapna Mukhopadhay, Wolff-michael Roth
      Pages 1-8

  3. Mathematics and Politics of Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-15
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    3. Contemporary Indigenous Education

      • Gary Urton
      Pages 33-51

    4. Crisis as a Discursive Frame in Mathematics Education Research and Reform

      • Delaina Washington, Zayoni Torres, Maisie Gholson, Danny Bernard Martin
      Pages 53-69

    5. Whose Language is It?

      • Marta Civil, Núria Planas
      Pages 71-89

  4. Ethnomathematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-96
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    2. Consulting the Divine

      • John Kellermeier
      Pages 97-113

    3. Map-making in São Paulo, Southern Brazil

      • Mariana Leal Ferreira
      Pages 115-158

    5. In Seeking a Holistic Tool for Ethnomathematics

      • Daniel Clark Orey, Milton Rosa
      Pages 184-203

    6. From Ethnomathematics to Ethnocomputing

      • Bill Babbitt, Dan Lyles, Ron Eglash
      Pages 205-219

  5. Learning to See Mathematically

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-226
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    2. The Work of Seeing Mathematically

      • Wolff-michael Roth
      Pages 227-245

    3. Running the Numbers

      • Chris Jordan
      Pages 247-259

    4. To Know How to See

      • Frank Swetz
      Pages 261-275

  6. Mathematics Education for Social Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-281
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    2. Quantitative form in Arguments

      • Gary Urton
      Pages 283-297
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About this book

This book grew out of a public lecture series, Alternative forms of knowledge construction in mathematics, conceived and organized by the first editor, and held annually at Portland State University from 2006. Starting from the position that mathematics is a human construction, implying that it cannot be separated from its historical, cultural, social, and political contexts, the purpose of these lectures was to provide a public intellectual space to interrogate conceptions of mathematics and mathematics education, particularly by looking at mathematical practices that are not considered relevant to mainstream mathematics education. One of the main thrusts was to contemplate the fundamental question of whose mathematics is to be valorized in a multicultural world, a world in which, as Paolo Freire said, “The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized asnon-intellectual”. To date, nineteen scholars (including the second editor) have participated in the series. All of the lectures have been streamed for global dissemination at:http://www.media.pdx.edu/dlcmedia/events/AFK/. Most of the speakers contributed a chapter to this book, based either on their original talk or on a related topic. The book is divided into four sections dealing with: • Mathematics and the politics of knowledge • Ethnomathematics • Learning to see mathematically • Mathematics education for social justice.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Portland State University, Oregon, USA

    Swapna Mukhopadhyay

  • Griffith University, Mt. Gravatt,Queensland, Australia

    Wolff-Michael Roth

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