2025 Mathematics Education Colloquium March 20th

Please join us at the upcoming Mathematics Education Colloquium, on Thursday, March 20, 2025 from 1:00 - 2:30 pm in B243 Wells Hall and on Zoom. Dr. Nathalie Sinclair, Distinguished University Professor at Simon Fraser University and former math ed faculty member at MSU, will be presenting The Colonial Legacy of European Mathematics in the Americas.

 https://msu.zoom.us/j/92039756507

Please see the Passcode in the Colloquium flyer posted on our Mathematics Education Colloquium page.

Abstract:  In this talk I will report on an on-going archival project at the Palafoxiana Library (with Elizabeth de Freitas, Armando Solares Rojas and Carlos Hugo Zayas) in Puebla, Mexico, the oldest public library in the Americas. The goal is to study the mathematical knowledge that was brought to the New World by the colonisers, the way it was selected, translated and transformed by local, criolli mathematicians, and how this can help us understand early formations of the mathematics curriculum in the 17th and 18th centuries.  

Bio:  Nathalie Sinclair is Distinguished University Professor at Simon Fraser University, which is on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Lhuḵw’lhuḵw’áyten). Her most recently funded research project is The Colonial Legacy of European mathematics in the Americas (with Elizabeth de Freitas). She is co-editor of the forthcoming book Learning Futures and Futures of Learning; Speculative Pedagogies for a Pluriverse Education amidst Extinction Challenges (with Petra Mikulan). Her research in mathematics education involves both the design and study of new tools (her gestural software for mathematics learning (TouchCounts and TouchTimes, with Nicholas Jackiw) is used around the world, with over 500,000 downloads) as well as the philosophical and historical study of the aesthetics of mathematical practice.  

The Program in Mathematics Education sponsors this event.