[Maths-Education] Re: Ethnomathematics

[Alan Rogerson]

*I am sending this to the list in case others may have this information 
as below.**
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**Dear Dylan,**
**Ubi gave a very important and influential talk at the ICME 1976 
Karlsruhe conference, mainly about Maths for All, which I attended. I 
don't recall if he used the word "ethnomathematics" then or during the 
conference, but it should be easy to check (if you haven't already) from 
the proceedings.**
**Please let me know if you find he did.**
**Ubi is a good friend I met before 1976 in Bielefeld and later on 
visits to Brazil and I imagine it was certainly he who coined the 
phrase, or made it popular in maths education.**
**Best wishes,**
**Alan**
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On 31/03/2014 22:58, Dylan Wiliam wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I am trying to track down the origin of the term "ethnomathematics". A vast number of internet sources claim that the term was first used in an address by Ubiratan D'Ambrosio to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1977 in Denver, Colorado, but none give details of the title of D'Ambrosio's talk. Does anyone have a title for the 1977 AAAS talk, or failing that, a rival for the earliest mention of the term?
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> Any help gratefully received.
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> Best wishes
>
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> Dylan Wiliam
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