Notations Across Cultures for Teaching
Abstract:
This paper reports about the census of mathematical notations, an initiative to collaboratively observe the diverging mathematical notations across cultures and languages. The census is the starting point for a type of learning activity for which multiple scientific evidence is available: the activity of inventing mathematical notations so as to stimulate the representation competencies. We explore the ingredients of such a learning activity and how the census helps stimulating it; we detail extensions of the census so as to serve the invented notations activities.
Published:
ICMI Studies, M. Setati, T. Nkambule & L. Goosen (Eds).
Proceedings of the ICMI Study 21 Conference: Mathematics and language diversity. Sào Paulo, Brazil: ICMI., 2011