Abdul Karim Bangura

African Mathematics (eBook, ePUB)

From Bones to Computers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761853497
• Artikelnr.: 38485358

Autorenporträt

Abdul Karim Bangura is Researcher-in Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at American University's Center for Global Peace, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: General Introduction Chapter 2: Beginnings: Mathematics of Bones
Chapter 3: Geometry South of the Sahara Chapter 4: Numbers Chapter 5:
Beginning of Written Mathematics: Egypt Chapter 6: The Maghrebian Tradition
Chapter 7: Combinatorics and African Applications Chapter 8: Vector
Calculus and African Applications Chapter 9: The Fourier Transform and
African Applications Chapter 10: Mathematical Tiling/Tesselation and
African Applications Chapter 11: Bifurcations and African Applications
Chapter 12: Fractals Chapter 13: African-centered Automated Generation of
Metadata Chapter 14: General Conclusion: Access to Mathematics versus
Access to the Language of Power: Lessons from the Struggle in South African
Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms Chapter 15 Bibliography