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Product Description: Claudia Zaslavsky has helped thousands of men and women understand why math made them miserable. Let her introduce you to real people who, like you, fled from anything to do with math. All of them--White, African American, Asian American, Latino, artist, homemaker, manager, teacher, teenager, or grandparent--came to see that their math troubles were not their fault...read more

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9780813520902 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: Offers suggestions for attaining mathematical competence and includes success stories of men and women who overcame their fear of math and achieved success in math-related fields

Paperback:

9780813520995 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers suggestions for attaining mathematical competence and includes success stories of men and women who overcame their fear of math and achieved success in math-related fields

Prebinding:

9781439509289 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Claudia Zaslavsky has helped thousands of men and women understand why math made them miserable.

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Product Description: These 80-plus math activities and number games help kids to think critically about math instead of just memorizing rules. The emphasis is on the underlying relationships between numbers and the process of manipulating them. Kids get together and play games with odd and even numbers, prime and composite numbers, factors, divisors, and multiples of numbers, common and decimal fractions...read more

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9781556523786 | Chicago Review Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Math activities and number games encourage thinking intuitively about math, emphasize the relationships between numbers and the process of manipulating them, and cover estimation, prime numbers, fractions, and other topics.

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9781435261082 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: These 80-plus math activities and number games help kids to think critically about math instead of just memorizing rules.
9780613887731 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Math activities and number games encourage thinking intuitively about math, emphasize the relationships between numbers and the process of manipulating them, and cover estimation, prime numbers, fractions, and other topics.

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

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9781556522871 | Chicago Review Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents games and other activities from different countries and cultures that teach a variety of basic mathematical concepts

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9781435261051 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 18, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: More than 70 math games, puzzles, and projects from all over the world are included in this delightful book for kids.
9780613879583, titled "Math Games and Activities from Around the World" | Turtleback Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: Presents games and other activities from different countries and cultures that teach a variety of basic mathematical concepts

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

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9781556525018 | Chicago Review Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents games and other activities from different countries and cultures that teach a variety of basic mathematical concepts.

Miscellaneous:

9781569767283 | Independent Pub Group, October 1, 2003, cover price $11.95

Prebinding:

9781435261068 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 18, 2008), cover price $23.95
9780613708173 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Math, history, art, and world cultures come together in this delightful book for kids, even for those who find traditional math lessons boring.

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A look into the culture and basic economics in Africa, particularly Kenya, is set in tandem with examples of how natives use practical mathematics to overcome language barriers and conduct business.

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9780863162503 | Black Butterfly Children, July 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an African market place.
9780863162404 | Writers & Readers, November 1, 1996, cover price $42.01 | About this edition: Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an African market place.

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9780690038651 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1980, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: A look into the culture and basic economics in Africa, particularly Kenya, in tandem with examples of how natives use practical mathematics to overcome language barriers and conduct business

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Product Description: This fascinating 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...read more

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9780871501608 | Prindle Weber & Schmidt, August 1, 1974, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: Examines the nature and applications of geometry number systems, and mathematical games in sub-Saharan Africa, in light of social, economic, and cultural factors

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9781556523502 | 3 sub edition (Chicago Review Pr, May 1, 1999), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This fascinating 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.

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Provides lesson plans based on the customs of cultures throughout the world for teaching number systems, arithmetic, measurement, mathematical reasoning, and related topics to grades three through six

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9780590496469 | Tch edition (Scholastic Prof Book Div, February 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Provides lesson plans based on the customs of cultures throughout the world for teaching number systems, arithmetic, measurement, mathematical reasoning, and related topics to grades three through six

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Product Description: Multicultural Mathematics is just that: an invitation to explore how we can study mathematics through the contributions of cultures throughout the world.This fascinating book contains 58 activities that each include: cultural, historical, or other background information...read more

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9780825121814 | J Weston Walch Pub, February 1, 1993, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Multicultural Mathematics is just that: an invitation to explore how we can study mathematics through the contributions of cultures throughout the world.

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Discusses the meaning and mathematical possibilities of the number zero
By Jeni Bassett (contributor) and Claudia Zaslavsky

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9780531106938 | Franklin Watts, April 1, 1989, cover price $18.43 | About this edition: Discusses the meaning and mathematical possibilities of the number zero

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More than one hundred games and activities involving both the manipulation of concrete objects and work with abstract concepts having no visual representation enable parents and teachers to help young children acquire basic mathematical skills

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9780805207965 | Schocken Books, May 1, 1986, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: More than one hundred games and activities involving both the manipulation of concrete objects and work with abstract concepts having no visual representation enable parents and teachers to help young children acquire basic mathematical skills

Traces the history and development of the three-in-a-row game for two players, popular all over the world, that is similar to games played in ancient Egypt.

Hardcover:

9780690043167 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1982, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Presents a wide variety of three-in-a-row games from around the world, with rules, winning strategies, and adaptations, and discusses the history of each game

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9780690043174 | Ty Crowell Co, October 1, 1982, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: Presents a wide variety of three-in-a-row games from around the world, with rules, winning strategies, and adaptations, and discusses the history of each game

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