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Keywords: Critical Mathematics Education, Mathematics, Vernacular mathematics, Graffiti, Montage
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{A} "See these numbers painted on the end of the case?" "Yeh." "Those numbers indicate the number of pieces that must be stuck in a minute. A two-foot tray must be stuck in 23 minutes. You ran five minutes over." He pointed to the 23. "Twenty-three minutes is standard." "That 23 doesn't mean anything," I said. "Whadda ya mean?" "I mean a man came along and painted that 23 on there with a can of paint." "No, no, this is time-tested over the years and rechecked." What was the use? I didn't answer. "I'm going to have to write you up, Chinaski. You will be counseled on this." I went back and sat down. Eleven years! I didn't have a dime more in my pocket than when I had first walked in. Charles Bukowski (1992, p. 144)
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{B} I mean, they call it Stockholm syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will. Patty Hearst (CNN 2002)
{C} Father wanted me to become an engineer, whereas I hesitated between pure mathematics, to which I was very strongly attracted, and Revolution, which little by little was taking possession of me. Every time this question arose there was an acute family crisis. Everybody looked depressed, and seemed to suffer intensely; my elder sister would weep furtively, and nobody knew what to do about it. Leon Trotsky (2012, p. 103)
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{D} One day two sisters, aged five and seven, said to each other: "Let's play sisters."...
In the game a situation is chosen that stresses the fact that these girls are sisters: they are dressed alike, they walk about holding hands - in short, they enact whatever emphasizes their relationship as sisters vis-a-vis adults and strangers. (Vygotsky 1967, p....