Ancient Egyptians Unit Fraction Word problem, September 23 As They might borrow a horse( or simply assume their horse was still alive) and do the math! So the first son got 6 horses, the second one 4 horses and the last one 1 horse. The sum would be 6+4+1=11, and they could return the horse they borrowed to its ownerđź’ˇ Scholars of ancient Egypt (ca. 3000 BCE) were very practical in their approaches to mathematics . This led them to a curious approach to thinking about fractions. The Egyptians wrote all their fractions as sums of unit fractions because feel unitĂ© fractions had a good intuitive feel to them which dose not seem to be important in our schooling today’s! For example, if you ask a kid how we can divide 7 cookies among 12 kids, he/ she most likely will say that everyone will take 7/12 of cookie! the answer is true , but is it practical? Why mathematics learning and teaching has become so dry and non- realistic concept?
Lovely! Great tracking of your mathematical thinking here.
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