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Dancing numbers: Cultural, cognitive, and technical instructional perspectives on the development of native American mathematical and scientific pedagogy

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Barta, J., Jetté, C. & Wiseman, D. Dancing numbers: Cultural, cognitive, and technical instructional perspectives on the development of native American mathematical and scientific pedagogy. ETR&D 51, 87–97 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02504530

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