Even at these middle grade levels, it is important to revisit previous mathematical ideas to deepen understanding. All of our 7th grade teachers participated in an integrated unit on the Maya. I ...

Students see how scientists began to unravel the meaning of Maya glyphs and then determine their own birth date using the Maya Long Count calendar system. The Maya civilization began about 2600 BC and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This 75-minute teacher webinar focused on the ways in which the Maya have used the Sun to track time for thousands of years. Ancestral calendars ...

An international team of researchers has solved one of the great enigmas of the ancient world: how the Maya managed to make such astonishingly accurate predictions of solar eclipses. By reexamining ...

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (MTMS) is an official peer-reviewed journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for middle school students, ...

A Millersville University senior's poster on Mayan mathematics earned him an "outstanding presentation" award last month at what organizers say is the largest mathematics meeting in the world.

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Last Friday, Sam Chamberlin and Gary Elminoufi stood in a parking lot on Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach to do something even harder than looking for a needle in a haystack. They first had to ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will launch Living Maya Time – Viviendo el tiempo maya—a bilingual website dedicated to highlighting Maya culture and dispelling doomsday myths ...