History
Mayan Math Rules
Addition/Subtraction
multiplication
Converting
100

Is it true or false that the Mayan system was one of the most advanced?

What is true?

100

What is the numerical value of a dot?

What is 1?

100

What number we get if we add a dot and a line with a dot on the top?


What is 7?

100

True or false, Mayan multiplication has been proven to exist?

What is false?

100

What base system to the Mayan people use?

What is base 20 system?

200

The Mayan civilization was a dominant society of Central America and what other country?

What is Mexico?

200

What numerical value represents a shell?

What is zero?
200

What number and symbols is if we add a dot with a group of four dots?

What is  5, a line/bar?

200

Remembering the basic rules of multiplication, if 1x1=1 and 5x1=5, how does the translate to Mayan numbers?

What is (Dot x dot = dot) & (dot x bar = bar)?

200

When converting Mayan numbers to base 10 what number is each place value multiplied by?

What is 20 to the power of n?

300

What was the intellectual accomplishment of the Mayan?

What is the concept of zero?

300

In what way do the mayan write their numbers?

What is top to bottom?
300

If we add 3 bars with 4 dots on top(19) and a single dot, what number/symbol will we get?

What is 20/a single dot?

300

Continuing to look at rules of multiplication, how does 5x5=25 translate to Mayan numbers?

What is (bar x bar = bar,dot)?

300

What is this Mayan number converted to base 10? Going bottom to the top, (BAR, BAR, 2 DOTS), (3 DOTS), (BAR, 4 DOTS)?

What is 3,672?

400

In Mexico, at what lands the Maya were centered?

What are Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Campeche, and Chiapas?

400

When writing Mayan numbers, every group of 5 dots turns into what?

What is a single bar?

400

What number and symbol we get if we subtract three bars with a dot on top from two bars with two dots on top?

What is 4, four dots?

400

What is, going bottom to top, (BAR, 3 DOTS) x (BAR, DOT)

What is Bottom to top, (BAR, 3 DOTS), (2 DOTS) ?

400

How do you write the number 2,246 with Mayan numbers?

What is (BAR, DOT), (BAR, BAR, DOT), (BAR)?

500

There are six reasons the Mayan are known. Which are they?

What are: Agriculture, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making, mathematics, Architecture and symbolic artwork?

500

When writing Mayan numbers there should never be 4 bars in one place value, what happens to that 4th bar?

What is that it will be converted to 1 dot and put in the next place value above?

500

Describe the number 433 using symbols, from top bottom. Clue: total of 3 symbols?

What is a dot followed by another dot and then two bars with 3 dots on top. (Dot, Dot, Two bars with three dots)?

500

What is, going bottom to top, (BAR, BAR, DOT) x (BAR, 4 DOTS)?

What is (BAR, BAR, BAR, 4 DOTS), (4 DOTS)?

500

What is this Mayan number converted to base 10? Going from bottom to the top (4 DOTS), (BAR, 2 DOTS), (2 BARS), (3 BARS, 2 DOTS)?

What is 140,144?