Online Journal Entry 2: The social relevance of ethnomathematics today
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...