Indigenous Burnt Bricks Production in the Benue Valley
The Ethnomathematics of Indigenous Burnt Bricks Production in the Benue Valley
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The First Tiv Computing System*
The Tiv people of Nigeria were naturally farmers. They technically cultivate yam, cassava, cereals and rear animals like cows, goats, sheep and poultry, while others hunt. As Tiv people became very efficient in farming,...
The Role of Homes in Children’s Mathematics Learning
An area that requires active participation of the home is the mathematics education of children. Mathematics as a subject is essential for children to appreciate the beauty of nature, think logically and make sound...
Tiv as a Language for Mathematics Instruction
Some theorists (example, Whorf, 1956) have suggested that language determines and defines thought. Linguists use the term language register to refer to the meanings that serve a particular function in the language, as well...
How the Mother Tongue was frustrated as Nigeria’s Language for Instruction
The language used to convey mathematical ideas to students has become a topic of increased concern to mathematics educators in recent years, across the globe. The reasons for this concern vary from country to...
The Traditional I’tche (Mancala) Board Game of the Orokam People
The I’tche game of the Orokam people is the ancient mancala game, so common among the people that the term “I’tche” in the Idoma language means “game”. It is obviously the first game every...
Olo Igbi: The Spinning Snail Shell Game
One of the first games many Idoma children can remember playing is “Olo Igbi”, an indigenous spinning game played using crafted snail shell. The African land snail (Lissachatina fulica) is a common sight in...
Story Telling
Can Extinct School Folktales be awakened through Mathematics Storytelling in Nigerian Basic Education? Narrator: Story? Story? Pupils: Story! Hits: 500
“Mudu” as a Market Measure
Our ancestors devised various means of commercial exchange along with diverse units for measuring farm produce that change hands within such exchange. These prehistoric units are all sizable approximations of quantity depending on the...
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas will soon be here! Being the biggest holiday season in the country, many activities of families, basic schools and churches are being re-designed around Christmas, establishing a new social pattern for many literate...
