Alex de Voogt, Ahmad B. Hassanat, Mahmoud B. Alhasanat,
... the game is sometimes confused with four-row mancala or even backgammon, as Depaulis pointed out for ... There, the game of ṭāb was identified as mancala.The presence of four rows of small indentations, ... five rows of five holes) and two-row mancala with significantly larger cup-shaped holes were found ... the people using these boards. For this reason, mancala games carved on the site of Palmyra in ... was used to determine the minimum age of mancala boards discovered in Qatar.21 Unfortunately, these results ...
Tópico(s): Language and cultural evolution
2017 - University of Chicago Press | Journal of Near Eastern Studies
... its roots in the ancient Egyptian game of Mancala. The Ayo board format was used in conjunction ... d'un jeu africain très répandu, descendant du mancala de l'Egypte antique. Le jeu d'ayo, ... sus raíces en el antiguo juego egipcio de Mancala. Se empleó el formato del tablero Ayo en ...
Tópico(s): Agricultural Innovations and Practices
1979 - Wiley | The IDS Bulletin
... earlier Antiquity article, the author showed us that mancala boards were carved on the Roman plinths at ... Here he takes us into Sudan, finding new mancala boards on the first-millennium pyramids at Meroe. ...
Tópico(s): Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
2012 - Cambridge University Press | Antiquity
Mary T. Brady, Robert Tyminski, Kristen Carey,
... and half Caucasian. 5. In the game of Mancala, players collect piles of marbles distributed along a ... board and deposit them in a container, or Mancala, at the end of the board. The player who collects the most marbles in her Mancala wins. 6. See Brady (Citation2011) for a Bionian ...
Tópico(s): Infant Health and Development
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Child Psychotherapy
Alex de Voogt, Laurie Linders, Ellen van den Broek,
... shown for a series of games, including chess, mancala (the generic name for all games that are ... chess, is largely not needed. We contend that mancala board games are immediately suitable for players with ... that are necessary to perform well in competitive mancala. RULES OF MANCALA Mancala games are found from South, Central, and Southeast ... world (see also ). The best way to learn mancala is to play with a teacher or an ... applications have been instrumental in the popularity of mancala games in the Western world. The following version ...
Tópico(s): Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
2010 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
Two mancala (one of the oldest games in the world) boards, which were found in the Lower Town of ... peninsula. Considering the fact that the knowledge regarding mancala is still quite modest, in this paper, we ... of geomantic divination; the anthropological knowledge regarding playing mancala in traditional communities; the distribution and the directions ...
Tópico(s): Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
2010 - University of Belgrade | Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology
Playing mancala-type games was an addictive pastime of antiquity and leaves its archaeological imprint on steps and ledges ...
Tópico(s): Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
2010 - Cambridge University Press | Antiquity
... activities of humankind, such as sowing and harvesting (mancala games), war (chess) and construction (puzzles). However, games ... como la siembra y recolección agrícola (juegos de mancala), la guerra (ajedrez) o la construcción (puzzles), pero ...
Tópico(s): Impact of Technology on Adolescents
2012 - Grupo Comunicar Ediciones | Comunicar
Vincent Charpentier, Alex de Voogt, Rémy Crassard, Jean‐François Berger, Federico Borgi, Ali al-Mashani,
... mission along the shores of the Arabian Sea, mancala games were discovered on the seashore of Salalah ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture analysis
2014 - Wiley | Arabian archaeology and epigraphy
... Rules and Strategies Anthula Natsoulas University of Toledo Mancala is a game whose existence has been documented ... rules are changed. General Description The game of Mancala was first introduced to the author by Ethiopian ... on such basic themes. The common elements of Mancala and the ethnography of the variations will be ... simulation of a typical game. The game of Mancala is always played by two persons. It is ... O OO O OOO OO Figure 1: Typical Mancala Board The Game ofMancala 9 Board Format The ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture analysis
1995 - Michigan State University Press | Northeast African Studies
... de proximidade entre a educação escolar e o Mancala- jogo milenar africano que foi institucionalizado, na Secretaria ... transculturalidade. Dessa forma aponto que no Brasil, o Mancala Awelé em sala de aula é uma simbiose ... Ambrósio sobre etnomatemática e Macedo sobre Jogos de Mancala. Inicialmente, apresentamos um pouco do trabalho do Núcleo ... Paulo, relatamos como se deu a formação com Mancala e por fim apresentamos uma experiência interdisciplinar com Mancala em sala de aula, vivenciada por uma professora ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Sustainability and Education
2017 - | Com a Palavra o Professor
... playing of indigenous strategic board games (also called mancala) and the socio-economic complexity of African ethnic ... hypothesis—that descendants of societies that played complex mancala games are more likely to be engaged in ... today. I compile the first comprehensive database of mancala games in Africa matched to ancestral characteristics data, ... hypotheses and studies can build on the comprehensive mancala database.
Tópico(s): Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
2020 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Alessandro Musesti, Maurizio Paolini, Cesco Reale,
... required to reach a periodic configuration of open mancala (also called open owari), inspired by a popular African game. A mancala move can be interpreted as a map from ...
Tópico(s): Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
2015 - Elsevier BV | Discrete Mathematics
Alex de Voogt, Lisa Rougetet, Nathan B. Epstein,
Adapting the centuries-old game of mancala provides basic exercises on mathematical modeling.
Tópico(s): History and Theory of Mathematics
2018 - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics | Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12
... the early history and characteristics of the Philippine mancala game known as sungka. The distribution of comparable Southeast Asian mancala games suggests two waves of distribution. The first ...
Tópico(s): Diversity and Impact of Dance
2010 - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture | Asian Ethnology
Tom Kronenburg, Jeroen Donkers, Alex de Voogt,
... is a member of the large family of mancala games. It is generally considered to be the most complex mancala game with respect to the number of game ...
Tópico(s): Video Analysis and Summarization
2006 - International Computer Games Association | ICGA Journal
Alex de Voogt, Nathan B. Epstein, Laurie Linders,
... aspect of calculating moves in a group of mancala games. It is shown that the ability to calculate multiple duru is a prerequisite to mancala (bao) expertise in Zanzibar, while duru-related optimization strategies explain the accomplishments of Maldivian mancala (ohvalhu) players. Since bao masters define duru calculation ... master players. Maldivian players of ohvalhu solved their mancala game by identifying a winning opening. Their optimization ... have a central role in our understanding of mancala expertise and both game-specific and general aspects ...
Tópico(s): Artificial Intelligence in Games
2015 - Brill | Journal of Cognition and Culture
Brant Jones, Laura Taalman, Anthony Tongen,
... over the world. There are many two-player mancala games in which a player may move again ... In this work, we study a simple solitaire mancala game called Tchoukaillon that facilitates the analysis of " ...
Tópico(s): Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
2013 - Taylor & Francis | American Mathematical Monthly
Tópico(s): Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
1956 - Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | Man
Tópico(s): Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
1975 - Brill | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia
... this article:Maxwell Mkondiwa, Hafiz T.A. Khan Mancala board games and origins of entrepreneurship in Africa, ...
Tópico(s): Agriculture and Rural Development Research
1979 - University of Chicago Press | Current Anthropology
... phenomena in awalé, a board game from the mancala family, which is commonly played in western Africa ...
Tópico(s): Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
2009 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
... rows of six depressions, resembling the modern-day mancala or wari game boards in use throughout the ...
Tópico(s): Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
1992 - University of Chicago Press | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Raghuram Ramanujan, Bart Selman,
... paper, we study UCT in the game of Mancala, which to our knowledge is the first domain ...
Tópico(s): Sports Analytics and Performance
2011 - | Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
Rey E. de la Cruz, Cheryl E. Cage, Ming-Gon John Lian,
Tópico(s): Global Education and Multiculturalism
2000 - SAGE Publishing | Teaching Exceptional Children
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2001 - | Expedition
Laura Taalman, Anthony Tongen, Beatrice Warren, F. Wyrick-Flax, Hee Rhang Yoon,
... constructing move vectors.We also explore extensions to Mancala, a popular two-player sowing game.
Tópico(s): Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
2013 - Taylor & Francis | College Mathematics Journal
O. O. Olugbara, Matthew O. Adigun, Sunday O. Ojo, TEMILOLUWA Oyeyemi Adewoye,
... game of Ayo is a member of the Mancala family. The problem of developing heuristics for playing Mancala games by a computer agent is an open ...
Tópico(s): Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
2007 - International Computer Games Association | ICGA Journal
... variant of the indigenous strategic games of Africa- Mancala- and suggest a research agenda that applies the ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Economic Methodology
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Revisado por pares
Claudio Henrique Sales de Souza, Liliana Costa,
... é apresentar as potencialidades didáticas do jogo africano Mancala no ensino de Matemática ao nível do Ensino ... alunos, será discutido o potencial didático-pedagógico do Mancala, chegando à conclusão da existência de diversas potencialidades ...
Tópico(s): Education and Digital Technologies
2020 - UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DA BAHIA | Revista Baiana de Educação Matemática