African mathematics: from bones to computers
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, and more.
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- Full title :African mathematics : from bones to computers / Mamokgethi Setati, Abdul Karim Bangura.
Summary
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, and more.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of America
- Place of Publication:Lanham, MD
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (220 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0761853499, 9780761853497, 0761853480, 9780761853480
- oclc:ocn698590244
- LC Classification:GN476.15
- Dewey Decimal:510
Table of Contents
Chapter 01. General Introduction; Chapter 02. Beginnings: Mathematics of Bones; Chapter 03. Geometry South of the Sahara; Chapter 04. Numbers; Chapter 05. Beginnings of Written Mathematics: Egypt; Chapter 06. The Maghrebian Tradition; Chapter 07. Combinatorics and African Applications; Chapter 08. Vector Calculus and African Applications; Chapter 09. The Fourier Transform and African Applications; Chapter 10. Mathematical Tiling/Tessellation and African Applications; Chapter 11. Bifurcations and African Applications; Chapter 12. Fractals
Chapter 13. African-centered Automated Generation of MetadataChapter 14. General Conclusion: Access to Mathematics versus Access to the Language of Power: Lessons from the Struggle in South African Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms; Bibliography
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