Count on your fingers African style

By Claudia Zaslavsky

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Navajo Indians, Counting, Africa, social life and customs, Mathematics, Counting, juvenile literature, Mathematics, juvenile literature, Ethnomathematics, Indians of North America, Number systems, Fiction, Social life and customs, Animals, Number concept, Finger play, Numeration

Description: Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an East African market place.