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Count on your fingers African style / [written by Claudia Zaslavsky ; illustrated by Wangechi Mutu].

Van Pelt Library GN645 .Z37 1999
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Zaslavsky, Claudia.
Contributor:
Wangachi Mutu, illustrator.
Award Winning and Notable Children's and Young Adult Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ethnomathematics--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Juvenile literature.
Numeration--Juvenile literature.
Counting--Juvenile literature.
Finger play--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Juvenile literature.
Number systems.
Africa--Social life and customs.
Counting.
Ethnomathematics.
Finger play.
Numeration.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Genre:
Juvenile works.
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Place of Publication:
[New York] : Writers and Readers Ltd. for Black Butterfly Books, [1999]
Summary:
Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an African market place.
Notes:
Illustrator name spelled Wangechi in book.
Statement of responsibility from cover.
ISBN:
0863162509
9780863162503
OCLC:
44637765
Publisher Number:
99990734168

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