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Math games & activities from around the world / Claudia Zaslavsky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press : Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, ©1998.Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 146 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1556522878
  • 9781556522871
Other title:
  • Math games and activities from around the world
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Contents:
Three-in-a-row games: Shisima from Kenya -- Tapatan from the Philippines -- Tsoro Yematatu from Zimbabwe -- Picaria, Native American -- 9 Men's Morris from England -- Trique from Colombia -- Nerenchi from Sri Lanka -- Dara from Nigeria -- Mankala: Board games of transfer: Easy oware from Ghana -- The real oware game from Ghana -- Sungka from the Philippines -- Giuthi from Kenya -- More board games: Pong hau k'i from Korea & China -- Mu torere from New Zealand -- Pentalpha from Crete -- Kaooa from India -- Awithlaknannai, Native American -- Butterfly from Mozambique -- Yote from West Africa -- Games of chance: Lu-lu from the Hawaiian Islands -- Native American games -- The game of dish, Native American -- Stick game, Native American -- Igba-ita from Nigeria -- Spin the dreidel, Jewish -- Toma-todo from Mexico -- Trigrams & good luck from east Asia -- The hexagrams of I Ching from China -- Puzzles with numbers: Secret code, ancient Hebrew & Greek -- Magic squares, from West Africa and China -- Magic squares -- Counting your ancestors -- Rice multiplies from Asia -- Dividing the camels from North Africa -- The Ishango bone from Congo -- Postal codes from the U.S.A. -- Puzzles without numbers: Crossing the river in the sea islands / in Liberia / with jealous husbands from Kenya / in colonial America -- The snake & the swallow's nest from Angola -- The Chokwe storytellers from Angola -- How the world began from Angola -- Children's networks from Congo -- Geometry all around us: The Olympic Games symbol -- The yin-yang symbol from China -- The dream catcher, Native American -- The tipi, Native American -- Round houses in Kenya -- Cone-cylinder houses in Kenya -- Tangram polygons from China -- The pyramids of ancient Egypt -- The Parthenon in Greece -- Pueblo buildings in the U.S.A. -- Designs & symmetry: Masks and faces from the U.S.A. -- Native American masks -- Hopi flat baskets, Native American -- Pennsylvania Dutch love pattern from the U.S.A. -- Mon-kiri cutouts from Japan -- Repeating patterns: Yup'ik Eskimo border patterns from Alaska -- The Covenant Belt, Native American -- African patterns from Congo -- Patchwork quilts from the U.S.A. -- Adinkra cloth from Ghana -- Tessellations in Islamic culture -- Polygon patterns, Islamic -- Be a tessellation artist, Islamic.
Summary: Presents games and other activities from different countries and cultures that teach a variety of basic mathematical concepts.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 793.74 Z38 Available 33111008949899
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 793.74 Z38 Available 33111008800951
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

More than 70 math games, puzzles, and projects from all over the world are included in this delightful book for kids.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-145).

Presents games and other activities from different countries and cultures that teach a variety of basic mathematical concepts.

Three-in-a-row games: Shisima from Kenya -- Tapatan from the Philippines -- Tsoro Yematatu from Zimbabwe -- Picaria, Native American -- 9 Men's Morris from England -- Trique from Colombia -- Nerenchi from Sri Lanka -- Dara from Nigeria -- Mankala: Board games of transfer: Easy oware from Ghana -- The real oware game from Ghana -- Sungka from the Philippines -- Giuthi from Kenya -- More board games: Pong hau k'i from Korea & China -- Mu torere from New Zealand -- Pentalpha from Crete -- Kaooa from India -- Awithlaknannai, Native American -- Butterfly from Mozambique -- Yote from West Africa -- Games of chance: Lu-lu from the Hawaiian Islands -- Native American games -- The game of dish, Native American -- Stick game, Native American -- Igba-ita from Nigeria -- Spin the dreidel, Jewish -- Toma-todo from Mexico -- Trigrams & good luck from east Asia -- The hexagrams of I Ching from China -- Puzzles with numbers: Secret code, ancient Hebrew & Greek -- Magic squares, from West Africa and China -- Magic squares -- Counting your ancestors -- Rice multiplies from Asia -- Dividing the camels from North Africa -- The Ishango bone from Congo -- Postal codes from the U.S.A. -- Puzzles without numbers: Crossing the river in the sea islands / in Liberia / with jealous husbands from Kenya / in colonial America -- The snake & the swallow's nest from Angola -- The Chokwe storytellers from Angola -- How the world began from Angola -- Children's networks from Congo -- Geometry all around us: The Olympic Games symbol -- The yin-yang symbol from China -- The dream catcher, Native American -- The tipi, Native American -- Round houses in Kenya -- Cone-cylinder houses in Kenya -- Tangram polygons from China -- The pyramids of ancient Egypt -- The Parthenon in Greece -- Pueblo buildings in the U.S.A. -- Designs & symmetry: Masks and faces from the U.S.A. -- Native American masks -- Hopi flat baskets, Native American -- Pennsylvania Dutch love pattern from the U.S.A. -- Mon-kiri cutouts from Japan -- Repeating patterns: Yup'ik Eskimo border patterns from Alaska -- The Covenant Belt, Native American -- African patterns from Congo -- Patchwork quilts from the U.S.A. -- Adinkra cloth from Ghana -- Tessellations in Islamic culture -- Polygon patterns, Islamic -- Be a tessellation artist, Islamic.

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