LEADER 03130nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910460427003321 005 20211031014021.0 010 $a1-282-92216-5 010 $a9786612922169 010 $a0-7618-5349-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066760 035 $a(EBL)634277 035 $a(OCoLC)704284059 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466771 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11277266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466771 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10465903 035 $a(PQKB)10281499 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC634277 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL634277 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10435013 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL292216 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066760 100 $a20110110d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrican mathematics$b[electronic resource] $efrom bones to computers /$fMamokgethi Setati, Abdul Karim Bangura 210 $aLanham, MD $cUniversity Press of America$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (227 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7618-5348-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aEthnomathematics$zAfrica 606 $aMathematics, Ancient$zAfrica 606 $aMathematics$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aSymbolism of numbers 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthnomathematics 615 0$aMathematics, Ancient 615 0$aMathematics$xHistory. 615 0$aSymbolism of numbers. 676 $a510.7067 676 $a510.7106 700 $aSetati$b Mamokgethi$0966866 701 $aBangura$b Abdul Karim$f1953-$0906634 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460427003321 996 $aAfrican mathematics$92551396 997 $aUNINA