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A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...
Several of these ancient scratch pads have been found at Kish and nearby Babylon, both of which were major areas of early mathematics education. While this particular tablet is blank on the back ...
What it tells us about the past: This round clay tablet, which is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, is one of two dozen examples of ancient Babylonian ...
A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Sumer reveals a student's math error on a triangle's area, marking a ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Name: Babylonian geometry homework What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an ...