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Author: Abdul Karim Bangura Publisher: University Press of America ISBN: 0761853480 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
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.
Author: Abdul Karim Bangura Publisher: University Press of America ISBN: 0761853480 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
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.
Author: Dirk Huylebrouck Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030040372 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 229
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This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications. It highlights the discovery of the Ishango rod, which was found to be the oldest mathematical tool in humanity's history, thereby shifting the origin of mathematics to the heart of Africa, and explores the different scientific hypotheses that emerged as a result. While it contains some high-level mathematics, the non-mathematical reader can easily skip these portions and enjoy the book’s survey of African history, culture, and art.
Author: Brantina Chirinda Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031139275 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 342
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This book is about mathematics teaching and learning in Africa during the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has evolved to utilize new technologies in the teaching and learning of Mathematics. It is characterized by the fusion of the biological, physical and digital worlds and embodies a new era of innovation in mathematics education, leading to the rapid emergence of new technologies for mathematics teaching and learning. Because 4IR in mathematics education is happening differently in various parts of Africa, the authors of the various chapters in this volume have positioned their work in their respective local contexts. The chapters address a wide variety of interests, concerns, and implications regarding 4IR and Mathematics Education in Africa. Additionally, a number of chapters address teaching mathematics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the world. Other chapters discuss the implications of inequalities in Africa that effect mathematics education during 4IR. Chapters also incorporate arguments, observations, and suggestions to, improve and transform the teaching and learning of mathematics in Africa during the 4IR. This book highlights a new era of innovation in mathematics education in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, leading to the rapid emergence of new technologies in mathematics teaching and learning. It is a valuable resource for graduate students, people with research interests in the fourth industrial revolution and mathematics educators at any level, including all mathematics teachers; mathematics education curriculum designers and policymakers.
Author: Claudia Zaslavsky Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1613741154 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 354
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This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among sub-Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; manipulating money and keeping accounts; number systems; patterns in music, poetry, art, and architecture; and number magic and taboos. African games such as mankala and elaborate versions of tic-tac-toe show how complex this thinking can be. An invaluable resource for students, teachers, and others interested in African cultures and multiculturalism, this third edition is updated with an introduction covering two decades of new research in the ethnomathematics of Africa.
Author: Ron Eglash Publisher: ISBN: 9780813526140 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 258
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Fractals are characterized by the repetition of similar patterns at ever-diminishing scales. Fractal geometry has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers on the border between mathematics and information technology and can be seen in many of the swirling patterns produced by computer graphics. It has become a new tool for modeling in biology, geology, and other natural sciences. Anthropologists have observed that the patterns produced in different cultures can be characterized by specific design themes. In Europe and America, we often see cities laid out in a grid pattern of straight streets and right-angle corners. In contrast, traditional African settlements tend to use fractal structures-circles of circles of circular dwellings, rectangular walls enclosing ever-smaller rectangles, and streets in which broad avenues branch down to tiny footpaths with striking geometric repetition. These indigenous fractals are not limited to architecture; their recursive patterns echo throughout many disparate African designs and knowledge systems. Drawing on interviews with African designers, artists, and scientists, Ron Eglash investigates fractals in African architecture, traditional hairstyling, textiles, sculpture, painting, carving, metalwork, religion, games, practical craft, quantitative techniques, and symbolic systems. He also examines the political and social implications of the existence of African fractal geometry. His book makes a unique contribution to the study of mathematics, African culture, anthropology, and computer simulations.
Author: Nkruma Byrd Publisher: African Learners ISBN: 9780990466918 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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AFRICAN MATH is the oldest math method on the planet Earth. It has recently been proven that both mankind and the civilizations that cradled her were born in a place we today call AFRICA. Great Black Kingdoms flourished in AFRICA for thousands of years. The architects, engineers, accountants, pharmacists, carpenters, teachers, boat builders, craftsmen, scribes, merchants and citizens of ANCIENT AFRICA practiced a very advanced mental math method using a binary abacus often overlooked as a mere board game. Every country in the continent of AFRICA has archeological artifacts of the worlds first calculator. The use of these ancient devices were thought to be lost for ever. The ancient cultures created by the original inhabitants of ANCIENT AFRICA have been decimated by Racism, Slavery, Colonization, Apartheid, and Segregation. Many of the original inhabitants of ANCIENT AFRICA were forced to abandoned their ancient practices by invaders. AFRICAN MATH was a casualty of this cultural assassination. ANCIENT AFRICAN potential lay dormant and denied because her children were forbidden to learn how to read, write or calculate. Recently a the descendants of these ANCIENT AFRICAN people have rediscovered their ancestors mental math method and have committed to reintroduce it to the world as confirmation that Blacks People are not only the Mothers and Fathers of mankind, but they are also the first PARENTS of ANCIENT CIVILIZATION."
Author: Helen Verran Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226853918 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 289
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Does two and two equal four? Ask someone and they should answer yes. An equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? In this book, Helen Verran addresses precisely that question.
Author: Abdul Karim Bangura
Author: Abdul Karim Bangura
Author: Dirk Huylebrouck
Author: Brantina Chirinda
Author: Paulus Gerdes
Author: Paulus Gerdes
Author: Giandomenico Sica
Author: Claudia Zaslavsky
Author: Ron Eglash
Author: Nkruma Byrd
Author: Helen Verran