Ethnomathematics

Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematics that considers the culture in which those mathematics arise. Ethnomathematicians typically take the view that any mathematics is an artefact of a particular culture. This study contributes to the understanding of cultures, but, reciprocally, to the understanding of mathematics.

Subjects which are studied in ethnomathematics include but are not limited to:

• Numeral systems
• Architecture
• Weaving
• Games of skill and chance, which fall under
• Probability
• Drawing and design (graph theory, set theory, Eulerian path)

See also

• anti-racist math
• multi-culturalism

Further reading

Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas by Marcia Ascher, ISBN 0412989417

External links

• Ethnomathematics