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Saxe, Geoffrey B. – 1981
This brief report from the Indigenous Mathematics Project focuses on the way in which numerical reasoning is changing in the Oksapmin community of Papua New Guinea as a function of participation in new social institutions: economic exchange with currency and enrollment in school. Each of these new institutions means that arithmetic problems are…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cross Cultural Studies
