Claudia Zaslavsky

Claudia Zaslavsky (January 12, 1917 – January 13, 2006) was an American mathematics educator and ethnomathematician.

Life

Zaslavsky was born on January 12, 1917 in New York City, and grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She studied mathematics at Hunter College and the University of Michigan, but was forced to leave full-time work and take care of her family during World War II, while her husband was away in the US Army.[1]

After the war and after her children grew older, she became a private high school mathematics teacher in Hartsdale, New York. After moving to a racially integrated public school, she began to learn about the history of mathematics in Africa and incorporate it into her classroom material in order to capture the interest of the African-American students in her classes.[1]

One of her sons, Alan Zaslavsky, became a statistician, and another, Thomas Zaslavsky, became a mathematician. She died of pancreatic cancer on January 13, 2006.[1]

Books

Zaslavsky's books include:

  • Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures (Prindle, Weber, and Schmidt, 1973; 3rd ed., Chicago Review Press, 1999)[2]
  • Preparing Young Children for Math: A Book of Games (Schocken, 1979)[3]
  • Count On Your Fingers African Style (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1980)[4]
  • Math Comes Alive: Activities from Many Cultures (J. Weston Walch, 1987)[5]
  • Tic-Tac-Toe (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1982}[6]
  • Zero: Is it Something? is it Nothing? (Watts, 1989)[7]
  • Multicultural Mathematics: Interdisciplinary Cooperative-learning Activities, Gr. 6-9 (1993)[8]
  • Multicultural Math: Hands-On Math Activities from Around the World (Scholastic, 1994)[9]
  • Fear of Math: How to Get Over It and Get On With Your Life (Rutgers University Press, 1994)[10]
  • The Multicultural Math Classroom: Bringing in the World (Heinemann, 1996)[11]
  • Math Games and Activities from Around the World (Chicago Review Press, 1998)[12]
  • Number Sense and Nonsense: Building Math Creativity and Confidence Through Number Play (Chicago Review Press, 2001)[13]
  • More Math Games and Activities from Around the World (Chicago Review Press, 2003)[14]

References
  1. d'Ambrosio, Ubiratan (July 2006), "Claudia Zaslavsky: In Memoriam", For the Learning of Mathematics, 26 (2): 25–27, JSTOR 40248530
  2. Reviews of Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures:
    • Corrigan, Edward (Fall 1973), Africa Today, 20 (4): 87–88, JSTOR 4185356CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Peak, Philip (December 1973), The Mathematics Teacher, 66 (8): 732, JSTOR 27959488CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Cole, Michael (February 1974), "Sub-Saharan mathematics", Science, New Series, 183 (4126): 741, JSTOR 1737664
    • Rising, Gerald R. (February 1974), The Arithmetic Teacher, 21 (2): 142–143, JSTOR 41191104CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Morrison, Philip (March 1974), Scientific American, 230 (3): 120–122, JSTOR 24950038CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Beidelman, T. O. (April 1974), Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 44 (2): 217–218, doi:10.2307/3698042, JSTOR 3698042CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jones, G. I. (June 1974), Man, New Series, 9 (2): 333, doi:10.2307/2800107, JSTOR 2800107CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ekpo, Smart A. (June 1974), The Journal of Modern African Studies, 12 (2): 347–349, doi:10.1017/S0022278X0000937X, JSTOR 159736CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Adler, Irving (Summer 1974), Science & Society, 38 (2): 241–244, JSTOR 40401789CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gay, John (Fall 1974), Research in African Literatures, 5 (2): 315–316, JSTOR 3818706CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • McCall, Daniel F. (1975), The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 8: 49–52, doi:10.2307/217619, JSTOR 217619CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Green, Bertrand W. (1975), ASA Review of Books, 1: 1–3, doi:10.2307/532492, JSTOR 532492CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Aull, Charlotte H. (March 1975), Isis, 66 (1): 114–115, doi:10.1086/351391, JSTOR 229541CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Holmes, J. (June 1975), The Mathematical Gazette, 59 (408): 117, doi:10.2307/3616654, JSTOR 3616654CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Feldman, Leonard (September 1975), Mathematics Magazine, 48 (4): 236–237, doi:10.2307/2690359, JSTOR 2690359CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Grabiner, Judith V. (November 1979), African Arts, 13 (1): 94–95, doi:10.2307/3335625, JSTOR 3335625CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Mather, Jeanne Ramirez Corpus (April 2000), The Mathematics Teacher, 93 (4): 352, JSTOR 27971398CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dewar, Jacqueline M. (May 2000), Teaching Children Mathematics, 6 (9): 600, JSTOR 41197500CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Austin, Suzanne S. (September 2000), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 6 (1): 72, JSTOR 41182272CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  3. Review of Preparing Young Children for Math: A Book of Games:
  4. Reviews of Count On Your Fingers African Style:
    • West, Tommie A. (April 1981), The Arithmetic Teacher, 28 (8): 44, doi:10.5951/AT.28.8.0044, JSTOR 41191877CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Whitin, David J. (May 2001), Teaching Children Mathematics, 7 (9): 548, JSTOR 41197684CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. Review of Math Comes Alive: Activities from Many Cultures:
    • Hill, Helen (January 1989), The Arithmetic Teacher, 36 (5): 44, 27, JSTOR 41194446CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. Review of Tic-Tac-Toe:
    • Wheeler, Margariete Montague (December 1983), The Arithmetic Teacher, 31 (4): 42–43, JSTOR 41192311CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. Review of Zero: Is it Something? is it Nothing?:
    • Adams, Dana S. (April 1990), The Arithmetic Teacher, 37 (8): 57, JSTOR 41194634CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. Review of Multicultural Mathematics: Interdisciplinary Cooperative-learning Activities:
    • Hellman, Deborah (December 1993), The Arithmetic Teacher, 41 (4): 234, JSTOR 41195998CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. Review of Multicultural Math: Hands-On Math Activities from Around the World:
    • Risser, Michael P. (September 1995), Teaching Children Mathematics, 2 (1): 56, JSTOR 41196411CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  10. Reviews of Fear of Math: How to Get Over It and Get On With Your Life:
    • Demchik, Virginia C. (October 1994), The Science Teacher, 61 (7): 85, 87, JSTOR 24149143CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Senger, Elizabeth (February 1995), The Mathematics Teacher, 88 (2): 150–151, JSTOR 27969242CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  11. Reviews of The Multicultural Math Classroom: Bringing in the World:
    • Johnson, Howard C. (March–April 1997), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2 (5): 365–366, JSTOR 41181603CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Barta, Jim (October 1997), Teaching Children Mathematics, 4 (2): 123–124, JSTOR 41196886CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  12. Reviews of Math Games and Activities from Around the World:
    • Short, Martha (February 1999), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 4 (5): 340, 342, JSTOR 41180640CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Risser, Michael P. (May 1999), Teaching Children Mathematics, 5 (9): 552, JSTOR 41197308CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  13. Review of Number Sense and Nonsense: Building Math Creativity and Confidence Through Number Play:
    • Yantsios, Jr., John N. (October 2002), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 8 (2): 126, JSTOR 41181253CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  14. Review of More Math Games and Activities from Around the World:
    • Levy, Mark (April 2004), Teaching Children Mathematics, 10 (8): 431–432, JSTOR 41198361CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)


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