Description

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Presents the emerging field of ethnomathematics from a critical perspective, challenging particular ways in which Eurocentrism permeates mathematics education and mathematics in general.

About the Author

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Arthur B. Powell is Associate Professor in the Academic Foundations Department at Rutgers University-Newark. He has coauthored Math: A Rich Heritage, translated Sona Geometry: Reflections on the Tradition of Sand Drawings in Africa South of the Equator, and cotranslated Sipatsi: Technology, Art and Geometry in Inhambane. Marilyn Frankenstein is Professor at the Center for Applied Language and Mathematics, College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has also written Basic Algebra and Relearning Mathematics: A Different Third R-Radical Maths. Together, they are co-founders of the Criticalmathematics Educators Group and members of the Radical Teacher Editorial Collective.