<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="all"></div><div>Hello list<br><br>I am an anthropologist by training and I defended my doctorate in linguistics seeking to collaborate with public education. I dedicated myself to studying the relationship between culture and language, looking at the discursive structure of how the best answers to the OBMEP (Olimpíada Brasileira de Matemática das Escolas Públicas - Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad of Public Schools) problems were composed of words, numbers, and images.<br><br>I have been researching this subject since 2011 and, along this path, despite not being a classroom teacher or a mathematician, I have noticed that these professionals are interested in words like language and culture, even though they are not linguists or anthropologists.<br><br>This encouraged me to seek a dialogue between mathematics and the Portuguese language as a way to cover a gap in the thinking of both disciplines: the ability to count.<br><br>Both in language, when structuring a paragraph, and in mathematics, when following numbering patterns, sequential order is essential; however, while in mathematics it is seen as "well-structured" for its formal correctness, in language it is valued for "making sense" and creating coherence.<br><br>The article and materials discuss these ideas and are presented here as an invitation to continue this dialogue.<br><br><a href="https://www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/emd/article/view/8099" target="_blank">The alphanumeric image: a discursive anthropology of Mathematics Education </a><br><br>videos:<br><br><br><img src="cid:ii_mecvqxje1" alt="image.png" width="320" height="180"><br><a href="https://youtu.be/5RcFLvLE0gU" target="_blank">link to video</a><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix"><img src="cid:ii_mecvodo70" alt="image.png" width="320" height="180"><br><a href="https://youtu.be/5RcFLvLE0gU" target="_blank">link to video</a><br>-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br><br>\u25ba beauty follows dignity*<a href="https://metaimagem.wordpress.com" target="_blank">https://metaimagem.wordpress.com</a><br><br><br></div></div>
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