Etnomatemáticas en artesanías de trenzado: un modelo metodológico para investigación

We present part of a research project from the field of Ethnomathematics. The purpose of the research is to characterize and assess the socio-cultural knowledge implicit in daily practice. The geographical context is Argentina. We investigated the mathematics implicit in braiding craftwork, producing a proper method for this ethnomathematical analysis. The methodological instrument, called MOMET, created for this "formal interpretative study" of braiding craftwork, focused on two aspects: the final product of the craftwork analysed in its overall complexity, and the process carried out to crea...