Claudia Zaslavsky

Who was Claudia Zaslavsky?

Claudia Zaslavsky was an American educator and ethnomathematician. She advanced the study of the links between mathematics and world cultures, especially with her pioneering book Africa Counts, that extended to Africa the work of Karl Menninger about mathematics in ordinary life in other parts of the world. She also worked to advance multicultural mathematics teaching with books and articles and by personal activity. Her son Thomas Zaslavsky is a mathematician in the U.S. and her son Alan Zaslavsky is a statistician at Harvard Medical School.