Welcome to ethnomathematics Today!
Environmental Protection & Social Organization for Sustainable Design
Math & Culture
Non-Eurocentric
Black/Indigenous Perspectives
Anti-Colonial. Anti-Imperialist.
Anti-Caste Discrimination.
Futurist
Peace & Greetings!
Power to the Youth!
My name is Dr. Tejvir Grewall, and I am a secondary mathematics education specialist in STEM education (PhD), focusing on ethnomathematics. I am also a public radio producer/journalist for Freedom Now! @ the Pacifica Radio Network station KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles, which has an educational license for radio broadcast.
About Us
Our Mission
Our mission is to develop ethnomathematics research, journalism, lessons, and curricula for sustainable design to advance mathematics education that is empowering, interdisciplinary, and focused on the indigenous knowledge and expertise that have stewarded our planet for thousands of years, given the crises we face today with the care for Mother Earth and her children around the globe.
Curriculum Development for Sustainable Design
Learning mathematics with culture shares knowledge of environmental protection and social organization, and teaches the humanity involved in caring for Mother Earth.
STEM education for sustainable design is vital because we only have one planet.
Surfers = Physicists
People who surf understand the concepts of a rate of change, speed, velocity, acceleration, and that they are tangent to a curve in motion that defines their position at any given moment in time.
Learning a rate of change is the same math from fractions to calculus!
(Black Surfer: "Buttons" Montgomery Kaluhiokalani from the Kingdom of Hawai'i)
Rap Music = A Multivariable Analysis
In music culture, rapping requires a fierce working memory to generate and conduct the lyrics stylistically, which is a highly cognitively demanding skill that produces a multivariable analysis for higher order thinking, and uses the regions of the brain needed to solve complex math problems.
Cognitive mechanisms play a vital role in Ethnomathematics!
(Artist: Aceyalone)
Decolonizing Mathematics Education
The pursuit to decolonize mathematics education decentralizes Eurocentrism and its imperialist, colonial, and caste systems that fuel the dehumanization and destruction of Mother Earth.
Advanced Perspectives on 'Triangulating'
When triangulating data or designing collaborative lesson plans, we should consider our knowledge and purpose when working with variables as revolving parts...right? (90 degrees = right angle)
Eurocentrism in Mathematics Education
Eurocentrism is the worldview where Europe is central and all non-European worldviews are the resulting outcasts.
Eurocentrism is designed to behave as a dominant worldview that invalidates the possible significance of culturalist arguments to propel the narrative that the Americanization of the world is justified to "reduce the content of social organization to two and only two principles: liberty (viewed as freedom of private enterprise) and property" (Samir Amin, 1989).