Before the Conquest.

Ascher, Marcia

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ERIC Number: EJ456379

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1992

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Before the Conquest.

Ascher, Marcia

Mathematics Magazine, v65 n4 p211-18 Oct 1992

Discusses two mathematical ideas that come from the Incan and Mayan cultures: (1) the quipus, an Incan recordkeeping tool that encoded data via a logical-numerical system on spatial arrays of colored, knotted cords; and (2) the link between recording time and counting in the Mayan culture. (MDH)

Descriptors: Coding, Data Processing, Foreign Culture, Higher Education, Information Storage, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education, Mathematics History, Number Systems, Recordkeeping, Time

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Learner; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Students; Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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