Developing Number Sense: What Can Other Cultures Tell Us?

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Developing Number Sense: What Can Other Cultures Tell Us?

Claudia Zaslavsky and Claudia Zaslavsky

February 2001, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 312

Abstract:
Describes how students can develop their number sense and an appreciation of the Hindu-arabic number system by studying the number systems and counting words from cultures around the world and across time.

Classification:
Multicultural
Whole Number
Number Sense

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