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Tables of Contents for Ethnomathematics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
4
Foreword
xv
U. D'Ambrosio
Introduction
1
4
A. B. Powell
M. Frankenstein
SECTION I. ETHNOMATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
5
46
A. B. Powell
M. Frankenstein
Chapter 1. Ethnomathematics and its Place in the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics
13
12
U. D'Ambrosio
Chapter 2. Ethnomathematics
25
26
M. Ascher
R. Ascher
SECTION II. UNCOVERING DISTORTED AND HIDDEN HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
51
68
A. B. Powell
M. Frankenstein
Chapter 3. Foundations of Eurocentrism in Mathematics
61
22
G. G. Joseph
Chapter 4. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science
83
18
M. Bernal
Chapter 5. Africa in the Mainstream of Mathematics History
101
28
B. Lumpkin
SECTION III. CONSIDERING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CULTURE AND MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
119
74
A. B. Powell
M. Frankenstein
Chapter 6. The Myth of the Deprived Child: New Thoughts on Poor Children
129
26
H. P. Ginsburg
Chapter 7. Mathematics and Social Interests
155
18
B. Martin
Chapter 8. Marx and Mathematics
173
20
D. J. Struik
SECTION IV. RECONSIDERING WHAT COUNTS AS MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
193
56
A. B. Powell
M. Frankenstein
Chapter 9. Difference, Congnition, and Mathematics Education
201
14
V. Walkerdine
Chapter 10. An Example of Traditional Women's Work as a Mathematics Resource
215
8
M. Harris
Chapter 11. On Culture, Geometrical Thinking and Mathematics Education
223
26
P. Gerdes
SECTION V. ETHNOMATHEMATICAL PRAXIS IN THE CURRICULUM
249
72
A. B. Powell
M. Frankenstein
Chapter 12. Ethnomathematics and Education
261
12
M. Borba
Chapter 13. Mathematics, Culture, and Authority
273
18
M. Fasheh
Chapter 14. Worldmath Curriculum: Fighting Eurocentrism in Mathematics
291
16
S. E. Anderson
Chapter 15. World Cultures in the Mathematics Class
307
24
C. Zaslavsky
SECTION VI. ETHNOMATHEMATICAL RESEARCH
321
90
A. B. Powell
M. Frankenstein
Chapter 16. Survey of Current Work in Ethnomathematics
331
42
P. Gerdes
Chapter 17. Applications in the Teaching of Mathematics and the Sciences
373
30
R. Pinxten
Chapter 18. An Ethnomathematical Approach in Mathematical Education: A Matter of Polotical Power
403
8
G. Knijnik
Afterword
411
8
G. Gilmer
Contributors
419
12
Index
431