Exploring Text, Practive and Practitioner
Learning, Practicing and recreational use of mathematics is weaved into the social through the practices like Teaching, Artisanal occupations like Carpenting, Sculpting, Boat making, Metal working, Astrology, etc... Such practice are manifests/echoes in tools and texts of practice. Such available evidence of tools, and the texts provide us with rich set of records that enables us to uncover the relationship between the Text, Practice and the Practicioner.
By Practice
By Language
By Material
By Space-Time
Our exploration through the archive of texts, museum of tools and objects helped us question the interdependency of:
- Tools, Measuring instruments at the site of Work
- Text used for learning mnemonic tables, relevancy of them at the site of Work by the Practitioner
Understanding the complexity of determining value using the measures, numbers, computational apparatus, calculation becomes possible only when the text, tool, and practitioner meet together.
