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Politics in an Indian Canyon? Some Thoughts on the Implications of Ethnomathematics
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Pinxten, Rik; Francois, Karen – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2011
Working with Navajo Indian informants in Arizona, USA we became aware of the capabilities of children and adults to find their way in vast and clearly "chaotic" canyons. One thing we did was describe what people actually did and said about their ways to find the way back home in such contexts. A second one was to use these data in order…
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