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Direct linkOwens, Kay – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
School mathematics tends to have developed from the major cultures of Asia, the Mediterranean and Europe. However, indigenous cultures in particular may have distinctly different systematic ways of referring to space and thinking mathematically about spatial activity. Their approaches are based on the close link between the environment and…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Geometry, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
