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Connor Desai – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2026
Many students (and adults) have never considered the origins of the number system. The system used now is layered with contributions from many cultures. The author, a middle school mathematics teacher, came to realize that this humanizing fact of the number system is a powerful catalyst for fostering belonging in the mathematics classroom. This…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Game Based Learning, Gamification, Number Systems
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Guzman-Jimenez, Rosario; Dhavit-Prem; Saldívar, Alvaro; Escotto-Córdova, Alejandro – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
Yupana Inca Tawa Pukllay (YITP) is a ludic didactic resource based on semiotic alternation that, using the reading of numbers in the Inca numeral system, improves its equivalent Indo-Arabic reading. Twelve children from first to fourth grade of a bilingual (Spanish-Quechua), multi-grade elementary school in a small rural Peruvian community were…
Descriptors: Semiotics, American Indians, American Indian Students, American Indian Languages