Claudia Zaslavsky - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Claudia Zaslavsky was an American

United States

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Ethnomathematics

In mathematics education, ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between mathematics and culture . Often associated with "cultures without written expression" , it may also be defined as "'the mathematics which is practised among identifiable cultural groups'" In mathematics education,...

. She advanced the study of the links between mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

and world cultures, especially with her pioneering book Africa Counts, that extended to Africa the work of Karl Menninger

Karl Menninger (mathematics)

Karl Menninger was a German teacher of and writer about mathematics. His major work was Zahlwort und Ziffer , about non-academic mathematics in much of the world...

about mathematics in ordinary life in other parts of the world . Her son Thomas Zaslavsky

Thomas Zaslavsky

Thomas Zaslavsky from Manhattan has been a professor of mathematics at the Binghamton University, New York since 1985. He has published papers in combinatorial mathematics, algebra and analysis...

is a mathematician in the US.

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