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

本研究调查了亚马逊西北地区数学教学中写作和编篮子之间的相互作用。通过在靠近巴西和哥伦比亚边境的土着学校进行实地考察，我建议分析西方数学思想是如何通过参考编织物的形状、设计和技术来探索的，以及反过来，嵌入这种艺术形式中的亚马逊数学思想是否会出现在笔记本和黑板上。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.