3 - Traditional Igbo Numbering System: A Reconstruction
Corresponding Author(s) : Patrick Mathias C. Ogomaka
Africa Development,
Vol. 30 No. 3 (2005): Africa Development: Special Issue 'All knowledge is first of all local knowledge'
Abstract
This article presents the properties of the traditional and decimalized Igbo number systems and the principles governing their formulation. It looks at the cultural and religious uses of Igbo traditional number system and their implications for the development of curricular in not just mathematics and ethno-mathematics in tertiary level education, but also in arithmetic for primary and secondary school levels.
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- gomaka, P.M.C, (in press), 'Nurnber Systems including some lndigenous Nurnber
- Systems'. Teaching Modules for Secondary School Teachers of General Mathematics, Abuja: NMC
- gomaka, P.M.C. & Akukwe, A.C., 1998, 'School and Work place Mathematics in Imo State: Sorne
- implications', Nigerian Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, Vol. 7, No 1:13-18
- huche, R.O, Ezeilo, J.O.C; Eke, B. I, et al., 1986, Everyday Mathematicsfor the Junior Secondary
- School, Book 1, Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers.
- yelese, J.O & Macdonald, T., 1992, Nelson Secondary Mathematics: Students' Book, Edinburgh: Thomas
- Nelson and Sons Limited.
- Vygodsky, M.V., 1992, Mathematics Handbook Elementary Mathematics,
- Moscow: MIR Publishers.
- Wilder, R.L., 1973, Transworld Student Library: Evolution of Mathematics Concepts, London:
- Transworld Publishers.
References
gomaka, P.M.C, (in press), 'Nurnber Systems including some lndigenous Nurnber
Systems'. Teaching Modules for Secondary School Teachers of General Mathematics, Abuja: NMC
gomaka, P.M.C. & Akukwe, A.C., 1998, 'School and Work place Mathematics in Imo State: Sorne
implications', Nigerian Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, Vol. 7, No 1:13-18
huche, R.O, Ezeilo, J.O.C; Eke, B. I, et al., 1986, Everyday Mathematicsfor the Junior Secondary
School, Book 1, Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers.
yelese, J.O & Macdonald, T., 1992, Nelson Secondary Mathematics: Students' Book, Edinburgh: Thomas
Nelson and Sons Limited.
Vygodsky, M.V., 1992, Mathematics Handbook Elementary Mathematics,
Moscow: MIR Publishers.
Wilder, R.L., 1973, Transworld Student Library: Evolution of Mathematics Concepts, London:
Transworld Publishers.