Title: Africa counts
First published: 1979
Description: This study of mathematical thinking among sub-Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; manipulating money and keeping accounts; number systems; patterns in music, poetry, art, and architecture; and number magic and taboos. African games such as mankala and elaborate versions of tic-tac-toe show how complex this thinking can be.
Subjects: Ethnomathematics, Mathematics, Primitive, Primitive Mathematics, Games, Mathematics, Africa, study and teaching, Mathematics, study and teaching, Africa, social life and customs, Mathematics, history
Places: Sub-Saharan Africa