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Direct linkShutler, Paul M. E.; Fong, Ng Swee – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2010
Modern Hindu-Arabic numeration is the end result of a long period of evolution, and is clearly superior to any system that has gone before, but is it optimal? We compare it to a hypothetical base 5 system, which we dub Predator arithmetic, and judge which of the two systems is superior from a mathematics education point of view. We find that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Computation, Arithmetic
