Claudia Zaslavsky

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

Life She was born Claudia Natoma Cohen (later changed to Cogan) on January 12, 1917, in Upper Manhattan in New York City and grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She attributed her first interest in mathematics to her early childhood experiences when she helped her parents in their dry goods store.

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