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Rauff, James V. – Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 1997
Investigates the mathematical ideas in iconographic designs such as sand scenes, yawalyu, site-path designs, and guruwari from the perspective of formal language theory and provides short formal grammars that generate the languages of designs. Suggests the pedagogical value of viewing Walpiri iconography as mathematics and discusses whether the…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Images, Language, Mathematics Activities
