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On Globalization and Ethnomathematics

2006· article· en· W6898406 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Thomas K. Varghese, Daniel McCusker

Bibliographic record

VenueComparative and International Education · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEthnomathematicsCurriculumGlobalizationSociologyContext (archaeology)PedagogyHumanitiesMathematics educationPolitical scienceMathematicsGeographyPhilosophy

Abstract

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The changes of globalization are forcing educational systems of developing countries to mimic the curricula, teaching methods and assessment tests of highly industrialized nations. Simply copying a curriculum built for a specific culture, however, may not be effective in another culture as mathematics is a product of the culture and socioeconomic system of a particular country. Mathematics teaching that is founded on and built upon the local cultural knowledge and/or the cognitive background can be more effective and will yield more opportunities to marginalized groups. Inclusion of ethnomathematics (everyday mathematics) in the curriculum helps to situate mathematics in real-world contexts. This article identifies some “everyday mathematics” from two southern states of India and explores how it can enrich classroom practices. School mathematics rooted in one’s culture, practices and history could reorient the whole context of mathematics education and allow the learner to experience mathematics as a human rather than an abstract activity. Les changements apportés par la mondialisation ont forcé les systèmes d'enseignement des pays en voie de développement à imiter les programmes d'études, les méthodes d'enseignement et d'évaluation des pays déjà industrialisés. Copier tout simplement un programme d'études édifié pour une culture particulière pourrait le rendre inefficace dans une autre culture. Cela arrive surtout dans le cas des mathématiques qui sont le produit de la culture et du système socio-économique propres à ce pays. Un enseignement des mathématiques qui est fondé et bâti sur la connaissance culturelle locale et/ou sur le fond cognitif pourra être plus efficace et procurera plus de chances aux groupes marginalisés. . L'inclusion dans le programme d'études les ethno-mathématiques (mathématiques du peuple) permet de situer les mathématiques dans le contexte du monde réel. Cet article identifie quelques formes de mathématiques du peuple connues dans deux états au Sud de l'Inde et examine comment les utiliser pour enrichir les pratiques d'enseignement. Les mathématiques scolaires ayant leurs racines dans la culture, dans les pratiques et dans l'histoire d'un peuple peut réorienter tout le contexte de l'enseignement des mathématiques et permettre l'apprenant à expérimenter les mathématiques comme une activité plutôt humaine qu'abstraite.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.521
Threshold uncertainty score0.223

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.094
GPT teacher head0.456
Teacher spread0.361 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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