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Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas: Papua New Guinea Studies - Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives Saxe, Geoffrey B. (University of California, Berkeley)
Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas: Papua New Guinea Studies - Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Saxe, Geoffrey B. (University of California, Berkeley)
Through an ethnographic study of a Papua New Guinea cultural group, Geoffrey Saxe traces the emergence of numerical representations and ideas as people participate in collective practices of daily life. His findings will be useful for understanding shifting representational forms and emerging cognitive functions in any human community.
393 pages, 120 b/w illus. 4 maps 24 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 28, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521761666 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 393 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 234 × 22 mm · 670 g |
| Language | English |