Making sense of ethnomathematics: Ethnomathematics is making sense

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 201-233

  Barton, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0009185687     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00143932     Document Type: Article

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