An interesting article on Ethnomathematics (1 Viewer)

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Here is an interesting article on the de-colonization of Mathematics from a professor in South Africa. It focuses on critically addressing the over-emphasis on deductive reasoning and empiricism in Western Mathematics as well as potential solutions to the problem.

Here is an interesting quote:

"Formal math education was introduced in India, as in South Africa, by a colonial administration, Raju notes. “Colonial education replaced indigenous math without any critical comparison,” he said in an email exchange in which he promoted the benefits of his methodology in the teaching of such subjects as calculus and geometry. Over the last decade, he has led workshops in normal mathematics to teachers and university students in India, Iran, and Malaysia.

Centering mathematics around deductive proof, as formal mathematics does, is mistaken, according to Raju. He argues that an overreliance on pure reason can lead to false knowledge: if the premises from which the reasoning begins are false, then so too is the knowledge."

It even goes into details regarding the intellectual theft of the Ancient Greeks in regards to Ancient Egyptian Mathematics as well as the mounting evidence that Euclid was a black female.

https://www.science20.com/the_conve...tory_and_bad_philosophy_of_mathematics-180581

Here is a link to the entire article.

https://undark.org/article/in-south-africa-decolonizing-mathematics/

 

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Here is an interesting article on the de-colonization of Mathematics from a professor in South Africa. It focuses on critically addressing the over-emphasis on deductive reasoning and empiricism in Western Mathematics as well as potential solutions to the problem.

Here is an interesting quote:

"Formal math education was introduced in India, as in South Africa, by a colonial administration, Raju notes. “Colonial education replaced indigenous math without any critical comparison,” he said in an email exchange in which he promoted the benefits of his methodology in the teaching of such subjects as calculus and geometry. Over the last decade, he has led workshops in normal mathematics to teachers and university students in India, Iran, and Malaysia.

Centering mathematics around deductive proof, as formal mathematics does, is mistaken, according to Raju. He argues that an overreliance on pure reason can lead to false knowledge: if the premises from which the reasoning begins are false, then so too is the knowledge."

It even goes into details regarding the intellectual theft of the Ancient Greeks in regards to Ancient Egyptian Mathematics as well as the mounting evidence that Euclid was a black female.

https://www.science20.com/the_conve...tory_and_bad_philosophy_of_mathematics-180581

Here is a link to the entire article.

https://undark.org/article/in-south-africa-decolonizing-mathematics/

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I feel so sorry for those in the world to come.