Studying artifacts in order to find out people's ways of thinking mathematically

• Author(s): Palhares, Pedro
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/23751
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Etnomatemática
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Tools and other cultural objects (called artifacts) are of gret importance for discovering certain forms of mathematical thinking. Some artifacts will be considered to show this and then a more general discussion, along with implications for education, follow.