2022 May TOK Essay (With good examples) Score B

본 문서는 2022년 may session 을 위한 에세이입니다.
NLCS 국제학교 졸업생 입니다.

Can there be knowledge that is independent of culture? Discuss with reference to mathematics and one other area of knowledge?

Word count: 1599

다른 에세이를 쓰더라도 잘 활용해 쓸수 있는 specific 한 example 들을 담았습니다.

영국 옥스브릿지 대학 출신 Tok 과외선생님께 첨삭또한 받았습니다.

TOK 선생님에게 받은 점수는 B 입니다. 참고로 저희 반에서 A를 받은 학생은 12명중 2명 이었습니다.
IB 최종 점수또한 B 받았습니다.

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Word Count : 1599

Throughout the essay, knowledge, which is ‘independent of culture’ can be defined as knowledge which is universal across all cultures, or knowledge which excludes cultural aspects, meaning there is an absence of underlying customs, beliefs and assumptions. Since the term culture signifies a framework of beliefs and values and learned patterns of traditions and customs of a society, it can be referred to as a subjective matter, which can differ by groups of individuals with similar perspectives or beliefs due to variation of personal knowledge. Humans mainly utilize language as their tool to express their opinions, which may also vary with different cultures. In addition, selection of methods can be considered as a crucial aspect, since it provides pre-existing knowledge and background knowledge in the production of new and further developed knowledge among humans. Therefore, this essay aims to examine how different cultural values influence the utilization of language and selection of methods in the production of knowledge, thus resulting in a creation of knowledge dependent on culture.

In the AOK of Mathematics, some mathematical knowledge can be heavily dependent on culture, since language can include the numerical system itself, a set of values for quantitative distinction.

For example, numerical systems differ due to cultural discrepancy between Spanish and French. Spanish employs the base-ten system, where ninety nine is referred to as “noventa y nueve”(meaning 90+9), while in France, it is referred to as “quatre-vingt-dix-neuf” (meaning 4*20+10+9), due to its base-20 system. The base-10 system in Spain was introduced in the 7th century by Arabs (Principal and Rusell, 2012), where France was inhabited by the Celts- the ones that adopted the base-20 numeral system (Ditton, 2020)…

• 총 페이지수: 8 pages
• 과목명: Theory of Knowledge (TOK)
• 주제: Can there be knowledge that is independent of culture? Discuss with reference to mathematics and one other area of knowledge?
• The file is in Word format.