Mr Goat's Bad Good Idea
By: by Claudia Zaslavsky ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
Contributors: Pinkney, Jerry.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crowell
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Ethnomathematics -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Juvenile literature.; Numeration -- Juvenile literature.; Counting -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Juvenile literature.; Finger play -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Juvenile literature.; Ethnomathematics -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Number systems.; Africa -- Social life and customs.
Description: Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an East African market place.