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African Mende Addition

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Pupils are introduced to a method of addition used by the Mende people of West Africa. The method uses counting and expansion to build toward the idea of addition. They complete addition problems.

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associative property, mathematical properties, commutative property

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african mathematics, associative property, commutative property, math
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr

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