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In the previous chapter, we showed how to use ideas from ancient Egyptian, Mayan and Babylonian mathematics when teaching math. In this chapter, we consider the use of a more recent computational tradition, namely, of a Russian peasant multiplication algorithm.
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Kosheleva, O., Villaverde, K. (2018). How to Enhance Student Motivations by Borrowing from Ancient Tradition: Russian Peasant Multiplication Algorithm. In: How Interval and Fuzzy Techniques Can Improve Teaching. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55993-2_9
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