Talk:Ethnomathematics

message: Anti-racism in mathematics teaching is barely more than a stub. While that article states that "anti-racism in mathematics teaching" and ethnomathematics "should not be confused with one another" it has yet to state why not or how they are different. The article states that anti-racist mathematics includes "discussion of the mathematical knowledge of" various cultures. This is ethnomathematics. Furthermore, the article has yet to document the use of this term or acknowledgment of this supposed area by anyone practicing "anti-racist mathematics", but instead documents opposition by conservatives to something they have no experience with. Hyacinth (talk) 01:42, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge: Anti-racism in mathematics teaching 

message: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kryptogeometrie-Geometry-of-Phaistos-Diskos-Disk-Disc-Disque/174559075930905 89.204.136.52 (talk) 07:17, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another example ? 

message: I do not see a full citation for Barton 1996 in this article. It looks like this guy publishes a lot of articles on this topic, so can someone provide the citation to which note 27 refers?74.232.112.226 (talk) 15:48, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barton 1996? 

message: It is my impression that when this article says "mathematics", it means the teaching of elementary mathematics to primary school pupils, and not mathematics in the sense of an abstract academic field or the Pythagorean notion of mathematics as truth. 
Because academic mathematics must be the least "ethnic" field there is. If you can prove Fermat's theorem, you will have proven it regardless of your cultural background, once and for all, to all mathematicians of any other cultural backgrounds, forever. Sure, there may be cultural bias in notation, we are using Arabic-Indian numerals because the Indians/Persians came up with the decimal system in the early medieval period. But hey, it's a set of ten symbols, it should be possible to get over this "Indo-Persian ethnocentrism" in all of about 15 minutes. 
Most of this "ethnomathematics" stuff seems to be concerned with elememary stuff like counting on your fingers, or at best the developent of elementary mathematics up to and including the medieval period. 
That's fine, but perhaps then this should be made clear, as it immediately means that any modern or advanced mathematics is not within the scope of this article and not subject to any kind of "ethnomathematical" politicizing. --dab (𒁳) 09:50, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "mathematics" in what sense?

message: (Author, Year) ain't gonna cut it for Wikipedia. If someone is up to the task, I can help. CVDX (talk) 18:32, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The "webcites" with PDF can be converted easily. As for the book refs, I guess Harvard style references would be nice in this case, but the specific pages will be needed. InternetowyGołąb (talk) 18:35, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, the problem is the ones that are just Author, Year. I appreciate your edit though! It's helping. CVDX (talk) 20:41, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Ye I see. I guess  template would do it. InternetowyGołąb (talk) 20:59, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The citations in this article need to be converted into proper cite-web format