Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Phakeng, Mamokgethi Setati, 1966-

Title African mathematics : from bones to computers / Mamokgethi Setati, Abdul Karim Bangura
Published Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethnomathematics -- Africa
Mathematics, Ancient -- Africa
Mathematics -- Africa -- History
Symbolism of numbers.
number symbolism.
MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
Ethnomathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics, Ancient
Symbolism of numbers
Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bangura, Abdul Karim, 1953-
ISBN 0761853499
9780761853497
0761853480
9780761853480