Between baskets and blackboards: The art of mathematics in Northwest Amazonia

本研究探讨西北亚马逊地区数学教学中写作与编篮的互动关系。通过在靠近巴西和哥伦比亚边界的土尤卡人的土著学校进行实地考察，我打算分析西方数学思想是如何通过参考篮子的形状、设计和技术来探索的，以及这种艺术形式中嵌入的亚马逊数学思想是否反过来找到了在笔记本和黑板上的方式。这为详细探讨学校教育和识字与传统物质文化和土著数学知识之间的关系提供了机会。

This research investigates the interaction between writing and basket weaving in the teaching of mathematics in Northwest Amazonia. By undertaking fieldwork in the indigenous school of the Tuyuka people, close to the border between Brazil and Colombia, I propose to analyse how Western mathematical ideas are explored by reference to the shapes, designs and techniques of basketry, and whether, in turn, the Amazonian mathematical ideas embedded in this artform find their way onto notebooks and blackboards. This provides an opportunity to explore in detail how schooling and literacy relate to traditional material culture and indigenous mathematical knowledge.