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Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures
Langbeschreibung
This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among sub-Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; manipulating money and keeping accounts; number systems; patterns in music, poetry, art, and architecture; and number magic and taboos. African games such as mankala and elaborate versions of tic-tac-toe show how complex this thinking can be. An invaluable resource for students, teachers, and others interested in African cultures and multiculturalism, this third edition is updated with an introduction covering two decades of new research in the ethnomathematics of Africa.
Claudia Zaslavsky has been a maths teacher and maths teacher's teacher since 1959 and was one of the first educators to emphasise multicultural perspectives in math. She is the author of 13 books and lives in New York City.
ISBN-13:
9781556523502
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.1999
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Claudia Zaslavsky
Gewicht:
490 g
Format:
223x152x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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