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Rowena Ball

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Rowena Ball

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Study compares sand drawings in Oceania and Africa

📅 7 April 2024

Published on 7 April 2024, the paper examines continuous-line designs as Indigenous mathematical knowledge.

Sand drawings embody graph-like structures

📅 7 April 2024

Continuity, cyclicity and symmetry appear in traditions transmitted through performance and teaching.

The paper questions European ownership of graph theory

📅 7 April 2024

It compares long-standing Indigenous practices with the conventional story that begins with Euler's bridges problem.

Ethnomathematics links knowledge to community

📅 7 April 2024

The study treats drawings as cultural, narrative and mathematical practices rather than extracting patterns from their social meaning.

Global review maps Indigenous mathematics research

📅 10 June 2024

A study dated 10 June 2024 reviews 169 publications and identifies mathematical practices across many societies.

Twenty categories of cultural mathematics are identified

📅 10 June 2024

Activities include building, weaving, navigation, games, measurement, patterning and environmental knowledge.

The review challenges restrictive definitions of mathematics

📅 10 June 2024

It argues that written theorem-proof traditions should not be the sole standard for recognizing mathematical reasoning.

Decolonization is made a research method

📅 10 June 2024

The authors ask where knowledge is located, who can interpret it and how Indigenous knowledge holders can retain authority.