Talk:Ethnomathematics

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Why, what, where, and how does this article need additional citations for verification? Hyacinth (talk) 05:05, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Tag removed. Hyacinth (talk) 01:20, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Vague Ethnomathematician's Response to Criticism

Just want to point out the vagueness of the "ethnomathematician's response" to the first point in the Criticism section. The last sentence of the first paragraph reads: "An ethnomathematician might reply that ethnomathematics is not meant to be a branch of mathematics nor of anthropology, but combines elements of both in something different from either." The bold portion of this sentence says almost nothing objective or useful about the discipline, nor does it respond in a meaningful way to the criticism. The sentence has almost no value as a counterpoint, and should probably be improved or deleted.

Also, the "ethnomathematician's response" to the second criticism does not make one bit of sense in the context of that paragraph. The response suggests that the independent development and/or discovery of negative numbers or Pascal's Triangle were merely a function of mathematical thought arising from ordinary life experiences. This seems to be a non sequitur argument. It should probably be replaced with a clearer counterpoint as well.

JoeJimbs 05:36, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

I see nothing has changed in this section - it's still vague and unsatisfying. Anyone up to a re-write? Bazuz (talk) 01:36, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Swiss/Belgian French

The article states "Swiss French and Belgian French do not use [quatre-vingt], preferring more standard Latinate forms: octante for 80 and nonante for 90." The articles on Swiss French and Belgian French both contradict this assertion, so I've flagged it as needing a citation. -- Heath 128.173.42.61 (talk) 17:28, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

I can only answer for Switzerland: "septante" is used for 70, "huitante" and "nonante" are (not everywhere) used for 80 and 90, respectively. "Octante" had been used, but is now probably obsolete. --131.152.227.74 (talk) 13:18, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

As a French going sometimes to Belgium, I can confirm that the Belgians use septante for 70 and nonante for 90, but they use the standard quatre-vingt for 80. Now we need to find a "real" source confirming that. Frédéric Grosshans (talk) 14:30, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Merge: Anti-racism in mathematics teaching

Anti-racism in mathematics teaching is barely more than a stub. While that article states that "anti-racism in mathematics teaching" and ethnomathematics "should not be confused with one another" it has yet to state why not or how they are different. The article states that anti-racist mathematics includes "discussion of the mathematical knowledge of" various cultures. This is ethnomathematics. Furthermore, the article has yet to document the use of this term or acknowledgment of this supposed area by anyone practicing "anti-racist mathematics", but instead documents opposition by conservatives to something they have no experience with. Hyacinth (talk) 01:42, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Support merge. I proposed one several years ago and got hardly any feedback. The 'anti-racism in mathematics teaching' article is still flawed, and salvageable content could be merged into 'ethnomathematics' and 'Anti-bias curriculum'. Dialectric (talk) 11:13, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

I do not think this merge is appropriate. Ethnomathematics describes an area of informal mathematical activity and practice but it is not necessarily either anti-racist or part of mathematics education - it can be part of anthropology. Hence the identification is inappropriate. PE

Another example ?

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