Enshu, who is a female student, also demonstrated her understanding
of division of a whole among a given number of individuals (in this case
among eight friends). Her procedure of dividing the local circular bread
(see diagram 6 in Table 1), typical to the Tigrean people in Ethiopia,
involves the concept of symmetry. Enshu elaborated this local knowledge
of mathematical significance into its equivalent global mathematical idea
using division of the circular bread as fair share performed among eight
friends. She commented that