Among them were many young students who had learned to do math operations according to the French system, which is different from ours. Ethnomathematics is important to show new teachers that new ideas coming from others are neither bad nor good, they are just different. He has a homemade example to share. My son used to come to me with questions on what was written on the screen to help Super Mario. On the other hand who own neither a Nintendo computer nor Super Mario and we must have and educational plan for them.
Nothing is more important than equality of access to knowledge.
Daniel likes to think mathematics by using everyday life objects. It had nothing in common with old time math classes taught by a cranky teacher with his back to the students, like the one Daniel remembered earlier. It seemed unlikely that in that rooms there were teachers from all over Brazil, to participate in one of the frequent professional development meetings sponsored by Pueri Domus for its 77 associated schools. If you think a meeting of teachers is a sluggish, boring, tedious thing you have not seen it yet. That meeting was so funny, and playful that we could imagine that Daniel Orey and the others were playing on the floor, like boys and girls in Kindergarten.