African Mathematics

Abdul Karim Bangura

doi:10.5771/9780761853497

African Mathematics

From Bones to Computers

1. Auflage 2011

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doi.org/10.5771/9780761853497
ISBN print: 978-0-7618-5348-0
ISBN online: 978-0-7618-5349-7
Hamilton Books, Lanham Hamilton Books, Lanham

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Abstract

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.

Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
i–vi Preface i–vi
- Contents
1–10 Chapter 01. General Introduction 1–10
11–15 Chapter 02. Beginnings: Mathematics of Bones 11–15
16–32 Chapter 03. Geometry South of the Sahara 16–32
33–40 Chapter 04. Numbers 33–40
41–49 Chapter 05. Beginnings of Written Mathematics: Egypt 41–49
50–59 Chapter 06. The Maghrebian Tradition 50–59
60–83 Chapter 07. Combinatorics and African Applications 60–83
84–95 Chapter 08. Vector Calculus and African Applications 84–95
96–110 Chapter 09. The Fourier Transform and African Applications 96–110
111–119 Chapter 10. Mathematical Tiling/Tessellation and African Applications 111–119
120–144 Chapter 11. Bifurcations and African Applications 120–144
145–155 Chapter 12. Fractals 145–155
156–187 Chapter 13. African-centered Automated Generation of Metadata 156–187
188–202 Chapter 14. General Conclusion: Access to Mathematics versus Access to the Language of Power: Lessons from the Struggle in South African Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms 188–202
203–220 Bibliography 203–220

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