Middle students?

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Incredible that nine middle school students and their teacher came up with this out of necessity. It is sheer elegance!

Middle school students. You know the whole can’t edit titles thing…

My family is Inupiaq!! This is the first time seeing my family’s specific tribe in a post:))

That was a great read. Those numerals are a really elegant way of representing numbers.

My college students were asked to find a region that we haven’t really discussed in class and look at the development of math. For some reason, one of the groups chose northern Alaska. I had never heard of this before, but I do know that at least one member of that particular group has an interest in indigenous cultures. I thought this was one of the most exciting things! Especially the impacted had on the students abilities to do math.

Good for them, but I fail to see the advantage, computers use binary, hex or 8, 16, 32 bits to count or represent somrething and we use base 10 because its easy to multiply or divide, but base 20?

The benefit is that it falls in line with their language. One of the challenges that the children have is that they don’t have enough characters in base 10 to represent the numerals that they have in their own language. This system allows them to work with the language they already have.

Many peoples and languages across time use base 20 or other non-decimal (12/60 is a well known one).

Well, that's gonna be really helpful and popular, too.