Abstract
This article offers a broad vision of the process of evolution of ideas on tables, their connotation of tools, emergence and development in different societies and cultures at different moments in history; questions that contribute to the knowledge about this object and its didactic scope. The reflection on the trajectory of the table and its presence as a storage tool, as a calculation tool in numbering and metrology systems, and as a tool of analysis in scientific and mathematical fields, helps to clarify its origin and nature as a mathematical object.
| Translated title of the contribution | Nature of the mathematical object “table” |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 105-122 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Magis |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 20 |
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| State | Published - Jul 2017 |