Folk mathematics can mean:
- The mathematical folklore that circulates among mathematicians
- The informal mathematics used in everyday life, as studied in ethno-cultural studies of mathematics.
Famous quotes containing the words folk and/or mathematics:
“Babies are beautiful, wonderful, exciting, enchanting, extraordinary little creatures—who grow up into ordinary folk like us.”
—Doris Dyson. quoted in What Is a Baby?, By Richard and Helen Exley.
“It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)