Mayan Maths!

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by Susan

The Mayans invented a new number system using only three symbols : a shell for zero, a dot which meant one and a dash which meant five. The girls were fascinated with this and so we spent a whole session doing maths the Mayan way.

There were several worksheets on Twinkl which we used within this pack.

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History | Maths | Mayans

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