Article ID: CBB000931922

Ancient Accounting in the Modern Mathematics Classroom (2008)

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Florida State University owns a collection of twenty-five cuneiform tablets, acquired from Edgar J Banks in the 1920s. We describe their rediscovery, present an edition of one of them (a twenty-first century BC labour account from the Sumerian city of Umma), and discuss their potential for use in undergraduate mathematics education.1

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Description On the possible use of Sumerian mathematical texts in modern teaching.


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Authors & Contributors
Steele, John M.
Robson, Eleanor
Proust, Christine
Horowitz, Wayne
Clark, Kathleen M.
Yasuyuki Mitsuma
Concepts
Cuneiform inscriptions
Tablets; papyri
Mathematics
Astronomy
Constellations; zodiac
Science education and teaching
Time Periods
Ancient
Bronze age
21st century
20th century
Places
Mesopotamia
Middle and Near East
Babylon (extinct city)
Ancient Near and Middle East: Egypt, Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Persia
Sumer
Assyria
Institutions
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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