Abstract
In the previous chapter, we showed how to use ideas from ancient Egypt when teaching math. In this chapter (and in the following chapter), we consider ideas from Mayan and Babylonian mathematics.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
O. Kosheleva, Mayan and Babylonian arithmetics can be explained by the need to minimize computations. Appl. Math. Sci. 6(15), 697–705 (2012)
C.B. Boyer, U.C. Merzbach, A History of Mathematics (Wiley, New York, 1991)
M.D. Coe, The Maya (Thames and Hudson, London, New York, 2011)
G. Ifrah, A Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer (London, 1998)
D.E. Knuth, Seminumerical Algorithms (Addison Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1981)
G. Morley, Ancient Maya (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1946)
O. Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity (Dover Publ, New York, 1969)
B.L. van der Waerden, Science Awakening (P. Noorhoff, Groningen, 1954)
B.L. van der Waerden, Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations (New York, 1983)
P.M. Milner, Physiological Psychology (Holt, New York, 1971)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Kosheleva, O., Villaverde, K. (2018). How to Enhance Student Motivations by Borrowing from Ancient Tradition: Mayan and Babylonian Arithmetics. In: How Interval and Fuzzy Techniques Can Improve Teaching. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55993-2_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55993-2_7
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-55991-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-662-55993-2
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)