Fractals

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"Our first design tool was developed for the "African Fractals" project (Eglash 1999). Mathematics teachers with large African American student populations reported that they could not use fractals -- there was too much pressure to conform to the standard curriculum -- and that they felt that many of the examples were too culturally distant from the students."

Ummm...fractals are advanced mathematics...by the time you reach that level, presumably teachers don't need to be condenscending to you...

And I wonder how they teach Fractals to students from India and the Philippines?
Or to students from Africa...where many tribes merely shave heads to keep down insects etc. and then wear a turban or scarf...