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Much of this seems fair: are you using good examples and story problems? Māori jury pools seems a bit esoteric, especially in the UK. Some examples used in mat
by pyuser583 5y ago
Much of this seems fair: are you using good examples and story problems? Māori jury pools seems a bit esoteric, especially in the UK.
Some examples used in math are extremely specific to certain background. For example, “The Josephus Problem” could probably have a more universally applicable name.
At the same time, just because you’re acknowledging some math education deals with social issues doesn’t mean you can throw out rigorous scholarships.
One of my professors specialized in the history of mathematics. It was popular to claim much of mathematics came from Egypt, not Greece. He did a very comprehensive survey of Egytian mathematics. A very common complain among Egyptian mathematicians was “almost everything in this field comes from the Greeks.”
- mc32 5y agoAncient Greece was a diaspora all around the Mediterranean. Ancient Egyptians have little relationship to modern Egypt. That said ancient Egyptians certainly had to solve lots of math problems and they likely came up with lots of similar solutions.
- pyuser583 5y agoThere’s a big difference between coming up with “good enough” engineering solutions, and integrating a philosophical tradition with rigorous mathematics. One the Greens were not good at was applied mathematics. They saw math as sacred, and avoided using it for “mundane” things. For example, the ancient world had something similar to double ledge accounting, but none of the mathematicians tried to flesh it out.