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

本研究调查了亚马逊流域西北部数学教学中写作和编织篮子之间的相互作用。通过在靠近巴西和哥伦比亚边境的图尤卡人的土著学校进行实地考察，我建议分析西方数学思想是如何通过参考篮筐的形状、设计和技术来探索的，以及嵌入在这种艺术形式中的亚马逊数学思想是否反过来被融入到笔记本和黑板上。这提供了一个机会来详细探索学校教育和读写能力与传统物质文化和本土数学知识的关系。

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.