Social, Cultural, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Tools for Mathematics

Tools influence what we can do, and also how we think.  The quipu was a useful tool for storage of information, but apparently not for manip...

Reflections on the importing the Marshall Islanders ‘contour’ map into our working group experience. The activity challenged us t...

What really struck me was how versatile the idea of tool is in terms of its relationships to other concepts: When does a tool become...

Je rédigerai cette réflexion au « je ». Et je tâcherai d’à la fois ne pas trop réfléchir et laisser émerger les pensées à moi. Voici tout c...