Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures by Claudia Zaslavsky

Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures

Claudia Zaslavsky

368 pages first pub 1999 (view editions)

nonfiction mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 i...

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