Africa counts; number and pattern in African culture.
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 in music, poetry, art, and architecture; and number ma...
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Boston,
Prindle, Weber & Schmidt
[1973]
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Table of Contents:
- The Background
- Numbers
- words, gestures, significance
- Numbers in daily life
- Mathematical recreations
- Pattern and shape
- Regional study: Southwest Nigeria
- Regional study: East Africa
- Past and future.