TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bangura,Abdul Karim
TI  - African mathematics: from bones to computers 
SN  - 9780761853480
AV  - GN476.15 B216 A 2012
KW  - Ethnomathematics
KW  - Africa
KW  - Mathematics, Ancient
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - History
KW  - Symbolism of numbers
KW  - Ethnomathematik
KW  - Afrika
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -