Students see how scientists began to unravel the meaning of Maya glyphs and then determine their own birth date using the Maya Long Count calendar system. The Maya civilization began about 2600 BC and ...

A Millersville University senior's poster on Mayan mathematics earned him an "outstanding presentation" award last month at what organizers say is the largest mathematics meeting in the world.

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (MTMS) is an official peer-reviewed journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for middle school students, ...

This story is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference in our community, reported by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more here. Some of the same items the Mayans would have used ...

An international team of researchers has solved one of the great enigmas of the ancient world: how the Maya managed to make such astonishingly accurate predictions of solar eclipses. By reexamining ...

So-called "Mayan math" advances the math curriculum story a little more. Harder and Jeanette Parrella, another math coach, said the new curriculum is not trying to teach second-graders how to use ...

Dr. Ed Barnhart, an American archaeologist, answers the internet's burning questions about the ancient Maya civilization. Why was the Maya calendar year only 260 days? Who did they sacrifice? Did they ...

Students see how scientists began to unravel the meaning of Maya glyphs and then determine their own birth date using the Maya Long Count calendar system. The Maya civilization began about 2600 BC and ...

So-called “Mayan math” advances the math curriculum story a little more. Harder and Jeanette Parrella, another math coach, said the new curriculum is not trying to teach second-graders how to use ...