from bones to computers Bangura, Abdul Karim creator text bibliography mdu 2012 monographic eng

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220 p. : ill. "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. 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 Abdul Karim Bangura. YT2025 M08 Ethnomathematics Africa Mathematics, Ancient Africa Mathematics Africa History Symbolism of numbers Ethnomathematics Mathematics Mathematics, Ancient Symbolism of numbers Ethnomathematik Africa Afrika GN476.15 B216 A 2012 9780761853480 0761853480 9780761853497 0761853499 SDU 160620