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This book defends that math education should systematically start out from the diverse out-of-school knowledge of children and develop trajectories from there to the Academic Mathematics ¬† tower of knowledge. Learning theories of the sociocultural school (Vygotsky and on) are used here, and ethnographic knowledge from around the world is shown to offer a rich and varied base for curricula. The book takes a political stand against the exclusively western focus ¬†in OECD analyses and proposals on math education.¬† This book aims at agents in education and social actions in every cultural environment. But it is also attractive to mathematicians, anthropologists and other specialists. It offers a broad and scholarly view of knowledge and culture and a very original¬† transcultural and transdisciplinarian approach to education. Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, UNICAMP/Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil