Éléments pour une ethnomathématique de l’awélé

Mathématiques et sciences humaines. Mathematics and social sciences

Chemillier, Marc¹ 

关键词: awele;    game;    mixed strategy;    cognition;    ethnomathematics;   

DOI  :  10.4000/msh.8883

学科分类：数学（综合）

来源: College de France * Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (E H E S S)

【 摘 要 】

Ethnomathematics is a new domain focusing on activities of traditional societies based on mathematical concepts such as numbers, forms, arrangements. Generally speaking, these activities are not associated with spoken descriptions from people doing them. It is thus difficult to analyse the way they conceive the mathematical notions underlying them. A game such as the awele played in Africa is an exception, since players can explain their strategies. The purpose of this article is to compare some mathematical properties of awele, and some explanations given by players of this game, in order to evaluate the distance between these two points of view.

【 授权许可】

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