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African Mathematics
From Bones to Computers
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16.02.2011
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This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area. These issues include 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, knowledge level, educational guidelines and policies, transitional schools, comparative education, other subjects such as physics and social studies, surveys, talent, educational research, teacher education and qualifications, academic standards, teacher effectiveness, lesson plans and modules, teacher characteristics, instructional materials, program effectiveness, program evaluation, African culture, African history, Black studies, class activities, educational games, number systems, cognitive ability, foreign influence, and fundamental concepts. What unifies the chapters in this book can appear rather banal, but many mathematical insights are so obvious and so fundamental that they are difficult to absorb, appreciate, and express with fresh clarity. Some of the more basic insights are isolated by accounts of investigators who have earned their contemporaries' respect.
Winner of the 2012 Cecil B. Currey Book Award.
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Publication year
2011
Publication date
16.02.2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5348-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5349-7
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
220
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Contents No access
Chapter 01. General Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 02. Beginnings: Mathematics of Bones No access Pages 11 - 15
Chapter 03. Geometry South of the Sahara No access Pages 16 - 32
Chapter 04. Numbers No access Pages 33 - 40
Chapter 05. Beginnings of Written Mathematics: Egypt No access Pages 41 - 49
Chapter 06. The Maghrebian Tradition No access Pages 50 - 59
Chapter 07. Combinatorics and African Applications No access Pages 60 - 83
Chapter 08. Vector Calculus and African Applications No access Pages 84 - 95
Chapter 09. The Fourier Transform and African Applications No access Pages 96 - 110
Chapter 10. Mathematical Tiling/Tessellation and African Applications No access Pages 111 - 119
Chapter 11. Bifurcations and African Applications No access Pages 120 - 144
Chapter 12. Fractals No access Pages 145 - 155
Chapter 13. African-centered Automated Generation of Metadata No access Pages 156 - 187
Chapter 14. General Conclusion: Access to Mathematics versus Access to the Language of Power: Lessons from the Struggle in South African Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms No access Pages 188 - 202
