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African mathematics : from bones to computers / Abdul Karim Bangura.
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TextDescription: 220 p. : illISBN: - 9780761853480
- 0761853480
- 9780761853497
- 0761853499
- GN476.15 B216 A 2012
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MATRIX Library General Eng/FL.3 | General Books | GN476.15 B216 A 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 1000385210 |
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| GN470 O58 1998 On Durkheim's Elementary forms of religious life / | GN472 B676 F 2014 Fetishism and culture : | a different theory of modernity / | GN476 P273 2002 Participating in development : | approaches to indigenous knowledge / | GN476.15 B216 A 2012 African mathematics : | from bones to computers / | GN483 Y68 2012 Young men in uncertain times / | GN487 K56 2011 Kinship, language, and prehistory : | Per Hage and the renaissance in kinship studies / | GN492 A627 2006 The anthropology of the state : | a reader / |
General introduction -- Beginnings : mathematics of bones -- Geometry south of the Sahara -- Numbers -- Beginnings of written mathematics: Egypt -- The Maghrebian tradition -- Combinatorics and African applications -- Vector calculus and African applications -- The Fourier transform and African applications -- Mathematical tiling/tessellation and African applications -- Bifurcations and African applications -- Fractals -- African-centered automated generation of metadata -- General conclusion: Access to mathematics versus access to the language of power : lessons from the struggle in South African multilingual mathematics classrooms.
HKBU library
YT2025 M08
"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"--Page 4 of cover.
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