About the book
Drawings from Angola by Paulus Gerdes
For children from age 8 to 14. “Drawings from Angola” present an introduction to an African story telling tradition. The tales are illustrated with marvelous drawings made in the sand. The book conveys 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 a sequence of odd numbers. Children will live the beautiful mathematics of the Angolan sanddrawings. Answers to the activities are provided. The book can be used both in classrooms and at home.
About the author
Dr. Paulus Gerdes has been a professor of mathematics at the Eduardo Mondlane University and at the Universidade Pedagogica in Mozambique for many years, serving as Rector of the latter from 1989-1996. He was a visiting professor at the University of Georgia from 1996 to 1998. He has served the African Mathematical Union as chair of AMUCHMA, the commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa, since 1996, and was the secretary of (SAMSA) the Southern African Mathematical Sciences Association (1991-1995).
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