Com quantos paus se faz uma canoa!
Subtitle: a matemática na vida cotidiana e na experiência escolar indígena
By: Mariana K. Leal Ferreira.
Publisher: Ministério da Educação e do Desporto, Secretaria de Educação Fundamental, Departamento de Política Educacional, Assessoria de Educação Escolar Indígena
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Brasília, DF
Language: por
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Mathematics.; Indians of South America -- Education -- Brazil.; Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Brazil.
Description: "Author relies on her experiences as an educator among various native peoples in Brazil to examine the specific problems of teaching mathematics. Argues for utilizing ethnomathematics approach developed by D'Ambrósio, relating mathematics to native reality"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-59).
Slightly revised version of chapter 3 of the author's thesis (master's--USP, 1992) presented under the title: Da origem dos homens à conquista da escrita: um estudo sobre povos indígenas e educação escolar no Brasil.