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

• Autor(es): Palhares, Pedro
• Data: 2010
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/23751
• Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Assunto(s): Etnomatemática
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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.