ethnomathematics

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ethnomathematics

Count on your fingers African style

  • Zaslavsky, Claudia
1980
Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an East African market place.

Ethnomathematics

a multicultural view of mathematical ideas
  • Ascher, Marcia
1998
Presents a comprehensive study of mathematical ideas of traditional peoples who have been excluded from discussions of mathematics including the Inuit, Inca, and Maori.

Count on your fingers African style

  • Zaslavsky, Claudia
1999
Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an African market place.
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