Title
Aymara Numbering Systems: changes and Formative Value
Other title
Los Sistemas de Numeración Aymara: cambios y Valor Formativo
Date Issued
01 December 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
BOLEMA Departamento de Matematica
Abstract
The Aymara ethnic group arrived in the Peruvian Altiplano in the 11th century and, after conquering the Pukinas, settled on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Peru-Bolivia. To meet its accounting and organization needs, they developed a numbering system, according to their geographical context and hand in hand with cultural syncretism, a consequence of the conquests. Within this framework, the objective of this article was to identify, analyze, and systematize the numbering system of the Aymara people. The methodology used was qualitative-ethnographic, consisting of field visits and interviews with the elderly and young people of the intervened communities, and a review of documentary sources from the colonial era (1612 and 1616), supported by the Ethnomathematics approach. The results show that there are two numbering systems, and not just one, as was previously believed, that are currently juxtaposed: the original one with a quinary base that stores quantitative and qualitative information, on which the decimal base number system was structured, eminently oral.
Start page
1701
End page
1722
Volume
35
Issue
71
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Matemáticas
Estudios generales de idiomas
Etnología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85123570049
Source
Bolema - Mathematics Education Bulletin
ISSN of the container
0103636X
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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