African Mathematics: History, Textbook and Classroom Lessons

For centuries, the world has been told a one-sided story, and now, when truth is exactly being told, it seems so unreal. Only a person( or group of privileged people), who know nothing more than was taught to them in the gas chamber institutions in the west would allow stuff like this to flow from that opening on their face;"So a people who have yet to establish a prosperous, first world society on their own, are the true founders of mathematics? Sorry, not buying it."So, who are these people who have yet to establish a prosperous first world society? Does this nonthinking person not realize that for thousands of years before anything called Europe existed (yes this includes Greece and Rome), there were a group of people who built the greatest civilization the world has ever seen. I can go on, however, I will not because I let facts speak for itself, spoken words from those who benefit from rape, murder, mayhem, and theft, has no credibility whatsoever, and those who don't like, oh well.

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Great and very informative read.

Counting on your fingers and toes does not constitute" mathematics".

Complete fiction. Lacks any credible fact.

So a people who have yet to establish a prosperous, first world society on their own, are the true founders of mathematics? Sorry, not buying it.

Ever since reading Claudia Zaslavsky's "Africa Counts" in the 1990's, I have had a keen interest in the contribution that African people have made to the science of Mathematics.In "African Mathematics", Robin Walker and John Matthews deal with the history and development of the science in Africa, both as an abstract study and a practical tool. We find Africans working with the more well known aspects of the science such as geometry and algebra, but in addition we come across some unusual calculating techniques and numerical systems! Along the way the author’s describe prehistoric bones inscribed with numerical data and the design of the cornrow/canerow hairstyles of African Women which are based on fractal geometry!To encourage learning and thinking about the subject, the second part of this book is presented as a series of classroom lessons containing a number of Mathematical questions and problems. This is a useful resource to support classroom teaching.Overall this book presents the subject extremely well and has an excellent reference section for further reading. I would certainly recommend this book.

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