ethnomathematics: June 2011

Subject Matter

Dr. Ron Eglash's 5 definitions of "ethnomathematics"

- a collection of translations of non-western math concepts to their western counterparts.

- study of patterns that occur from an indigenous culture being an indigenous culture.

- studying the patterns mentioned above, but with consideration for the social activity from which they were caused.

- "folk math", the language and patterns of (contemporary) everyday conversation and creations by a common person, a non-mathematician.

- the society of mathematicians as recognized by their culture.