https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj Nick, Abby, Madilyn, Parker en-us 2017-02-17 20:10:36 UTC 2024-10-16 06:51:14 UTC hello@padlet.com nick_coakley2016 https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154694610
This is the Maya's number system. It is a base 20 system. They use dots, lines, and shells for their numbers]]> 2017-02-17 20:14:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154694610 nick_coakley2016 https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154695297 According to the Everyday Life of the Maya the reason why this achievement was remarkable was because if they did not invent their number system, we would not have the number zero. They were the people who invented the concept of zero]]> 2017-02-17 20:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154695297 nick_coakley2016 https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154696015 According to mathwhicha.edu another reason why this achievement is remarkable is because they used grain or pebbles to represent units and a short stick of bean stock to represent fives.]]> 2017-02-17 20:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154696015 nick_coakley2016 https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154696789 According to storyofmathmatics.com  one more reason why this achievement is remarkable is because their number system only consisted of only three symbols, in which a shell represented 0, a dot represented 1, and a line represented 5]]> 2017-02-17 20:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154696789 nick_coakley2016 https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154697649 This achievement is more remarkable than the others because without it, we would not have our number system today. This achievement is genius, significant, and had a very big impact on society today, ]]> 2017-02-17 20:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nick_coakley2016/qmojfxg378vj/wish/154697649