Working group 8
Questions and thoughts for researching cultural diversity and mathematics education
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction / Guida de Abreu, Sarah Crafter, Núria Gorgorió
- A survey of research on the mathematics teaching and learning of immigrant students / Marta Civil
- Parental resources for understanding mathematical achievement in multiethnic settings / Sarah Crafter
- Discussing a case study of family training in terms of communities of practices and adult education / Javier Díez-Palomar, Montserrat Prat Moratonas
- Understanding Ethnomathematics from its criticisms and contradictions / Maria do Carmo Domite, Alexandre Santos Pais
- Using mathematics as a tool in Rwandan workplace settings: the case of taxi drivers / Marcel Gahamanyi, Ingrid Andersson, Christer Bergsten
- Parents’ experiences as mediators of their children’s learning: the impact of being a parent-teacher / Rachael McMullen, Guida de Abreu
- Batiks: another way of learning mathematics / Lucília Teles, Margarida César
- The role of Ethnomathematics within mathematics education / Karen François