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GED103-SECTION 34 - MATHEMATICS IN MODERN WORDLD

LORENZO, Richiemark
RIVERO, Gabrielle Ross
SANTOS, Tesslene Claire
SUMULONG, Maryrose

CHAPTER 1
EXPLAINING THE ORIGINS: ETHNOLOGICAL AND PYSCHOLOGICAL
APPROACHES IN TH SORCES OF NUMBERS

1. Why is it important to use our body especially our hands in learning mathematics?

2. How do Botocudos express three and four when they only have two real number terms:
"one" for one and "two" for two?

3. How prehistoric humanity did arithmetic for many millenia, before the first glimmer of
arithmetic or of number-concepts arose?

4. How could you probably tell which of the numbers are meant without accompanying the
gesture?

5. Why is the intellectual faculty of counting where in the creation of human mind is called
“hierarchy relation” or “order relation”?

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