Claudia Zaslavsky (1917–2006)
Auteur de Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures
A propos de l'auteur
Claudia Zaslavsky was the author of Math Games and Activities from Around the World, More Math Games and Activities from Around the World, Africa Counts, and many others.
Œuvres de Claudia Zaslavsky
Number Sense and Nonsense: Building Math Creativity and Confidence Through Number Play (2001) 18 exemplaires
Multicultural Math: Hands-On Math Activities from Around the World (Instructor Books) (1994) 10 exemplaires
Tic Tac Toe: And Other Three-In-A Row Games from Ancient Egypt to the Modern Computer (1982) 9 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Zaslavsky, Claudia
- Autres noms
- Cohen, Claudia N.
- Date de naissance
- 1917-01-12
- Date de décès
- 2006-01-13
- Sexe
- female
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA (death)
- Études
- Hunter College (BA | 1937)
University of Michigan (MA | Statistics | 1938)
Columbia University (Mathematics Education | 1974-1978)
Membres
Critiques
Zaslavsky's math concept within her book is counting numbers using your fingers. The African people use their fingers to count how many things they need and how much it will cost them within their market place. There are many different ethnic groups from African that is mentioned in the book and they all have their different ways to count on their fingers which was interesting to learn. This book encourage my curiosity and it was easy to make a natural connection to mathematics.
In Africa people from all over come to the market to buy and sell their goods. Many of the people in the market do not speak the same language. How do they buy and sell with this language barrier? They use their fingers to communicate the exchange of goods for money. This books shows the different ways to represent numbers using your fingers. This book was very interesting and we enjoyed learning new ways to use your fingers to represent numbers.
Although this book did not have the best plot it shows great diversity though mathematics. The book explains the different ways people show number representations by their fingers in Africa. For the number 3 they do not just simply throw three fingers in the air, Massi boys pinch their thumb and pointer finger and rest their middle finger on the pointer finger to show the numerical value of the number 3. This is a great way to implement social studies, history, and diversity trough math in the classroom.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Membres
- 347
- Popularité
- #68,853
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 43
- Langues
- 3
I like that the book teaches readers the many different ways that we can count using our fingers.
The book contained natural connections to math, enabled discovery and a sense of wonder.