and later a statistician. The other, Thomas Zaslavsky, became a mathematician. Zaslavsky died of pancreatic cancer in Harlem, New York, on January 13, 2006, survived by her husband Sam and their two sons. 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) References 1917 births 2006 deaths American anthropology writers American ethnologists Women ethnologists Anthropology educators Mathematics educators Ethnomathematicians