Section 13.14 Small Number Around the World
Written by: Veselin Jungi?
Illustrated by: Lila Mohammed
Collection of retellings of a mathematical-thinking-related story in various languages
In early September 2024, I started inviting my colleagues, collaborators, and my former students to help me ¡°make a collection of the cartoon in various languages¡± by sending me their ¡°mother tongue translation of the English text.¡± Of course, I contacted only those people who previously shared with me this kind of information.
In my message, I explained: ¡°The point that I'd like to make is that love for mathematics and storytelling unite us across continents, cultures, ages, genders, and ranks.¡±
What followed was a two-month-long emotionally intense learning journey.
The outcome was a collection of seventy-three authentic retellings of the story narrated in the following fifty-seven languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia (2), Bemba, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Regular and Simplified), Croatian, Czech (2), Dutch, English, Finnish (2), French, German (3), Gikuyu, Greek, Gurmukhi, Haida, Hebrew, Hindi (3), Hungarian, Italian (2), Irish (Gaelic) (2), Japanese (2), Kazakh, Kiswahili, Korean, Luhya, Macedonian, Mohawk, Nepali, Norwegian (2), Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian (2), Russian (2), Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (2), Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Tla'amin, Turkish (2), Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Wolof.
For more details about the project, see
Thank you to everyone who, directly or indirectly, contributed to the project!
- Veselin Jungi?
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¡°I just finished translating the comic in Sindhi with my mom and grandmother. They both were able to read and approved it to be correct. Thank you so much for giving me a platform to write this educational comic in a language that is so dear to me.¡±
