African mathematics: from bones to computers

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"This comprehensive text on African Mathematics addresses some of the problematic issues in the field, such as attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests, performance factors, student characteristics, cross-cultural differences and studies, literacy, native speakers, social class and differences, equal education, teaching methods"--Page 4 of cover.

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Full title :African mathematics : from bones to computers / Abdul Karim Bangura.

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Publication Date:2012

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of America, Inc
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (v, 220 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9780761853480, 0761853480, 9780761853497, 0761853499
oclc:on1055366558
LC Classification:GN476.15

General introduction -- Beginnings : mathematics of bones -- Geometry south of the Sahara -- Numbers -- Beginnings of written mathematics: Egypt -- The Maghrebian tradition -- Combinatorics and African applications -- Vector calculus and African applications -- The Fourier transform and African applications -- Mathematical tiling/tessellation and African applications -- Bifurcations and African applications -- Fractals -- African-centered automated generation of metadata -- General conclusion: Access to mathematics versus access to the language of power : lessons from the struggle in South African multilingual mathematics classrooms.

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Africa Afrika Ethnomathematics Ethnomathematics -- Africa Ethnomathematik Ethnomathématiques -- Afrique History mathematics Mathematics -- History. -- Africa Mathematics, Ancient Mathematics, Ancient -- Africa Mathématiques -- Histoire. -- Afrique Mathématiques anciennes -- Afrique number symbolism Symbolism of numbers Symbolisme des nombres