A Comment on: Rowlands & Carson "Where would formal, academic mathematics stand in a curriculum informed by ethnomathematics? A critical review"

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 327-335

  Adam, Shehenaz ^a   Alangui, Wilfredo ^a   Barton, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ethnomathematical curriculum; Ethnomathematics; Philosophy

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544257401     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024308220169     Document Type: Article

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