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Marine Corps Inst., Washington, DC. – 1984
This course is designed to review the arithmetic skills used by many Marines in the daily pursuance of their duties. It consists of six study units: (1) number systems and operations; (2) fractions and percents; (3) introduction to algebra; (4) units of measurement (considering both the metric and United States systems); (5) geometric forms; and…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, Fractions, Geometric Concepts
Peer reviewedAscher, Marcia – Mathematics Magazine, 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
