Mayan Multiplication

[rotomthunder]

Cool

[erryfleming11k]

I want this video on my F900 phone.

[articlescholar]

Strange remarks on this video once more.

[FragZnStunZ]

Haha I learned this in school and at first I was really confused

[kickmyass06]

what do you call this method.. we are going to conduct a thesis about this.. can u help us???

[MisterNickOtine]

this is fucking amazing. why didn't they teach us this in school?

[MisterNickOtine]

@MisterNickOtine ok i see its limitations now, but its still neat.

[djmopa]

very cool

[MyBadGamertag]

It's a cool trick, but has nothing to do with the Mayans. The Mayans used base 20, not 10.

[SubscriberX100]

thats some cool shit :D

[SuperRaptorz]

Nice, now multiply 769 by 58

[truthIsStranger]

@SuperRaptorz

it is nice and they can... if you sit down and try it, it's easier than using anything but a calculator.

When you look at the length X width paradigm within each of the grids created, you can see how it is just another way of understanding place values... this is exactly how we do out multiplication in our heads. It even breaks apart the numbers the way our heads do.

You've got to try it to realize that you already knew this! I've just never *seen* it all at once... amazing

[CerebralPrince10]

@SuperRaptorz

It took me 20 seconds in my head. If you read 58 as 058

(7*0)(7*5+6*0)(7*8+6*5+9*0)(48­+45)(9*8)

35 86 93 72

2 carry over 7

0 carry over 10

6 carry over 9

4 carry over 4

44602 :-)

[LAO90]

if there so smart why did they thought those idiots spaniards were gods. And why are they extinct

[tollan23]

@LAO90 LOL!! You'd really have to pick up a few books and read something if you wanted that question answered. That may be too difficult for you though, but no problem. There's not enough space here for me to respond properly. Suffice it to say that ALL empires and cultures rise and fall, without exception.  This includes all that are here today.

[Tumalupip1981]

Interesting stuff :-)

[zeldera]

thats freaking amazing. Probably the most fun way of multiplying in history.

[foreskinforest]

An early mechanism for calculating whole numbers! I have never seen this before.

[kancerzx]

Thank you for I've learned something new today

[JimSmithInChiapas]

I live in a Maya region of Chiapas, Mexico, where I have the pleasure of volunteering with highly dedicated Maya campesinos to improve the awful schools the government foists on them. You can download some of our materials at

localhs "dot" com "slash" hs "slash" maya_mathematics "dot" asp

Other good sources are MATEMÁTICA MAYA by Silvia María Poveda (available online)

And the classic

La ciencia matemática de los Mayas, . Ingeniero Hector M. Calderón, Editorial Orion, México D.F.,

1966.

[AlyssaJeane]

I think it would be a lot easier just to multiply the regular way. This way is confusing.

[alexbonki]

Very intriguing... it is. Quite interesting too. Why do we always have to do math the school way, huh? Cheers to freedom on math and all other subjects!!!

[HotRockx]

you should explain how this is done in the "more info" because this will not make any sense to some ppl

[Sanjar10A7777]

how about 10X10???

[rottenpuke]

@Sanjar10A7777 Exactly what I was wondering

[Yahwehsninja]

@rottenpuke 10x10 would be two lines crossing making one point. So you have one and then i would guess you just 'carry' the zeros

[Sanjar10A7777]

it is great!!! Try 999 X 999 :)

[MayaMKIII]

why is the 1 carried over?

[00Ziyed00]

Could you explain how this works if you multiply numbers without the same length like:

53 X 267

[meandera]

As a maths dunce, I think this is awesome, to see a visual alternative to our trad methods. HAve seen it called both Vedic and Mayan technique, so OK not entirely accurate in source perhaps, but keep your hair on toddawful - it works dammit!

[scir91]

another good technique. i am happy you don't TALK in this video and let your actions speak for themselves

[toddawful]

this is NOT mayan. fucking MORON, it's VEDIC math, from INDIA. long way off from central america, eh?

[r2itos]

it is mayan and live with it MAYANS RULE

[pikachun00b7]

It is BOTH Mayan/ and Vedic.

[cHeEzegRiS]

crazy!! awesome.

[nauiocelotl]

awesome !