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EDMT 208 Mathematics, Technology and Society How Technology Shifted Classroom Teaching and Learning By Edmar Oandasan Hello, fellow learner and reader, welcome back to my blog. In this post, I try to express my insights about this interesting question: How has technology changed the way mathematics is taught and learned in classrooms? As you may have noticed, technology has dominated the way we interact as humans globally, regionally, and in our communities at an extremely rapid phase. The impact has not spared the academic world too, changing the way teachers and students interact in schools especially in classroom settings. Technology then has permeated every layer of human educational experience including the way we transfer (as teachers) and acquire knowledge and skills (as learners). After engaging with the assigned readings about the intersection of mathematics and technology and contemporary mathematics, I see this change not simply as the introduction of tools, but as ...

EDMT 208 Mathematics, Technology and Society Rethinking Mathematics: The social relevance of ethnomathematics today By Edmar Oandasan Welcome back to my blog on mathematics. In my previous post, I explored mathematics as a personal, internal experience - something that happens in the mind and helps us make sense of the world through abstraction and modelling. But after reading more on the topic, I’ve started to see mathematics differently - not just as an individual activity, but as a socio-cultural activity - something deeply rooted in culture and shared by communities. This blog then shifts the analysis of mathematics from a relatively individual experience to some kind of social experience. This shift in perspective led me to an important question: Why is ethnomathematics relevant in our present society? Like many people, I used to associate mathematics with formulas, equations, and symbols often tied to the English language. It felt as though understanding math required...

EDMT 208 Mathematics, Technology and Society   On Mathematical Experience By Edmar Oandasan   Hello everyone! Welcome to my first ever Mathematics blog although I am not new to blogging. In fact, I had some few blogs about my travels almost a decade ago but it stopped when I moved to Europe when life became preoccupied with other concerns that my modes of reflection turned into another form. I am intending to blog again hoping that it will put my reflections into tangible form something that can be revisited anytime. This time will not be about travelling without – to the wild untamed world waiting to be discovered but travelling within – towards the enrichment of the mind in the subject of Mathematics especially into its interconnections with technology and society. For the past few weeks I have been diving deep into our materials for the course Mathematics, Technology and Society . We are on the part of exploring the historical and philosophical side of Mathema...