Current Topics in mathematics and ethnomathematics: points of convergence
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1981-1322.2016v11n2p418Abstract
In accordance to the understanding of D'Ambrosio who conceives that the professional of mathematics is also a way to Ethnomathematics, this article aims to explain some speech elements of Ethnomatematics Program and to foment discussions on how these elements are also present in current topics of mathematics of professionals in this area. Thus, the article is organized in a way that initially covers some speech elements of Ethnomatematics, which lead us to understand mathematics as a historic human production and not as an absolute production, infallible and closed in itself. At a later time, presents a brief reflection on the new Logic, the geometries non Euclidian and the geometry of fractals, particularly with regard to the context in which they were built. Finally, they discuss some relations and similarities between elements made of the Ethnomatematics Program speech and production of mathematical knowledge which we call current topics.
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