Tiling patterns and the formulation of conjectures 76 b. 915, Maputo, Mozambique Photograph on the front cover: Detail of a Tonga basket acquired, in January 2014, by the author in Inhambane, Mozambique 4ĥ CONTENTS page Preface (2014) 11 Chapter 1: Introduction 13 Chapter 2: Ethnomathematical research: preparing a response to a major challenge to mathematics education in Africa Societal and educational background 19 A major challenge to mathematics education 21 Ethnomathematics Research Project in Mozambique 23 Chapter 3: On the concept of ethnomathematics 29 Ethnographers on ethnoscience 29 Genesis of the concept of ethnomathematics among mathematicians and mathematics teachers Concept, accent or movement? 34 Bibliography 39 Chapter 4: How to recognize hidden geometrical thinking: a contribution to the development of an anthropology of mathematics Confrontation 45 Introduction 46 First example 47 Second example 51 Third example 52 A method for recognizing hidden geometrical thinking 54 Cultural and pedagogical value 55 ReferencesĦ Chapter 5: On culture, geometrical thinking and mathematics education Some social and cultural aspects of mathematics education in Third World countries Towards a cultural-mathematical reaffirmation 61 Examples of cultural conscientialization of future mathematics teachers Study of alternate axiomatic constructions of Euclidean geometry in teacher training 6 An alternate construction of regular polygons 67 From woven buttons to the Theorem of Pythagoras 72 From traditional fish traps to alternate circular functions, football and the generation of (semi)regular polyhedra a. de Namaacha 188, Belo Horizonte, Boane, Mozambique Distributed by: Author: Paulus Gerdes African Academy of Sciences & ISTEG, Mozambique C.P. 3 Paulus Gerdes Second edition: ISTEG Belo Horizonte Boane MozambiqueĤ First Edition (January 1995): Institutionen för Internationell Pedagogik (Institute of International Education) Stockholms Universitet (University of Stockholm) Report 97 Second Edition (January 2014): Instituto Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão (ISTEG) (Higher Institute for Technology and Management) Av.
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