[Maths-Education] Color edition of the children's book "Drawings from Angola. Living Mathematics"

[Paulus Gerdes]

Dear colleagues and friends,

I have the pleasure to announce the first color edition of the English
language version of the children's book "Drawings from Angola. Living
Mathematics", translated from Portuguese to English by Prof. Dr. Arthur B.
Powell, Rutgers University, Newark. The black-and-white edition (2007)
continues also available.

Both the color and the black-and-whites editions are available from:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pgerdes <http://stores.lulu.com/pgerdes>

Backcover text:

For children from age 8 to 14.

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“Drawings from Angola” presents an introduction to an African story telling
tradition.  The tales are illustrated with marvelous drawings made in the
sand.

The book tells the stories of the stork and the leopard, the hunter and the
dog, the rooster and the fox, and others. It explains how to execute the
drawings.  The reader is invited to draw tortoises, antelopes, lions, and
other animals.  The activities proposed throughout the book invite the
reader to experiment and to explore the ‘rhythm’ and symmetry of the
illustrations.  Surprising results will be playfully obtained such as in
arithmetic, a way to calculate quickly the sum of sequence of odd
numbers.  Children
will live the beautiful mathematics of the Angolan sand drawings.

Answers to the activities are provided.



The book can be used both in classrooms and at home.



For youngsters from 15 years onwards, Paulus Gerdes wrote the book “Lusona:
Geometrical Recreations of Africa” (The latest edition is a color edition
with solutions, Lulu, 2012).

Parents and teachers who like to know more about the Cokwe story telling
and drawing tradition, may consult Gerdes’ book “Sona Geometry from Angola:
Mathematics of an African Tradition” (Polimetrica, Monza, 2007).

-- 
Paulus Gerdes

Professor of Mathematics
Vice-President for Southern Africa, African Academy of Sciences
Chairman, AMU Commission for the History of Mathematics in Africa
President, International Studygroup for Ethnomathematics
Senior Advisor for Research and Quality, ISTEG-University, Boane, Mozambique
Postal adress: C.P. 915, Maputo, Mozambique
paulus.gerdes at gmail.com
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pgerdes <http://stores.lulu.com/pgerdes>
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