Math games & activities from around the world
Presents games and other activities from different countries and cultures that teach a variety of basic mathematical concepts.
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- Full title :Math games & activities from around the world / Claudia Zaslavsky.
Summary
Presents games and other activities from different countries and cultures that teach a variety of basic mathematical concepts.
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- Publication Date:©1998.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Chicago Review Press, Distributed by Independent Publishers Group
- Place of Publication:Chicago, Ill
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 146 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 x 28 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1556522878, 9781556522871
- oclc:ocm38162818
- LC Classification:QA95
- Dewey Decimal:793.7/4
Table of Contents
Three-in-a-row games: Shisima from Kenya -- Tapatan from the Philippines -- Tsoro Yematatu from Zimbabwe -- Picaria, Native American -- 9 Men's Morris from England -- Trique from Colombia -- Nerenchi from Sri Lanka -- Dara from Nigeria -- Mankala: Board games of transfer: Easy oware from Ghana -- The real oware game from Ghana -- Sungka from the Philippines -- Giuthi from Kenya -- More board games: Pong hau k'i from Korea & China -- Mu torere from New Zealand -- Pentalpha from Crete -- Kaooa from India -- Awithlaknannai, Native American -- Butterfly from Mozambique -- Yote from West Africa -- Games of chance: Lu-lu from the Hawaiian Islands -- Native American games -- The game of dish, Native American -- Stick game, Native American -- Igba-ita from Nigeria -- Spin the dreidel, Jewish -- Toma-todo from Mexico -- Trigrams & good luck from east Asia -- The hexagrams of I Ching from China -- Puzzles with numbers: Secret code, ancient Hebrew & Greek -- Magic squares, from West Africa and China -- Magic squares -- Counting your ancestors -- Rice multiplies from Asia -- Dividing the camels from North Africa -- The Ishango bone from Congo -- Postal codes from the U.S.A. -- Puzzles without…
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