This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for topics relating to Ethnomathematics.

Recommended Reading:

Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture by Claudia Zaslavsky 1999

African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design by Ron Eglash 1999

The Development of Arabic Mathematics: Between Arithmetic and Algebra by Rushdi Rashid 1994

Ethnomathematics: Challenging Eurocentrism in Mathematics Education by Arthur B. Powell & Marilyn Frankenstein (Editors) 1997

Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas by Marcia Ascher 1994

History of Chinese Mathematics by Jean-Claude Martzloff 1997

Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu by Marcia Ascher & Robert Ascher 1997

Native American Mathematics by Michael P. Closs (Editor) 1996

Native American Pedagogy and Cognitive-Based Mathematics Instruction by Judith E. Hankes 1998

Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa by Paulus Gerdes 1998

Links

Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematics which takes into consideration the culture in which mathematics arises.

Ethnomathematics on the Web: a page of links developed by the International Study Group for Ethnomathematics.

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education: Web-based version of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. It is an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Mathematical Contributions by African Americans and Others: links to sites providing information on contributions by African Americans and other ethnic and minority groups to mathematics and science.

Mathematics of the African Dispora: One of the purposes of this website is to exhibit the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within the Mathematical Sciences.