kaktovik

There's nothing inherent about learning kaktovik numerals that would help on standardized tests.

At first students would convert their assigned math problems into Kaktovik numerals to do calculations, but middle school math classes in Kaktovik began teaching the numerals in equal measure with their Hindu-Arabic counterparts in 1997.

If you ever played Riven, I think the Kaktovik numerals inspired the numbering system from the game.

Another number system, which I learned about recently on HN, are the Kaktovik numerals, which are even closer to D'ni.

That number can be represented in both Kaktovik numerals and arabic.

But Kaktovik is a positional system while Roman is not!

By the article's own admission there, students were using kaktovik numerals before 1997, and their scores were lower, so whatever change was made in 1997 did not involve students learning kaktovik numerals when they didn't know about them before.

> Because of the tally-inspired design, arithmetic using the Kaktovik numerals is strikingly visual.

Sorry, but I don't understand the basis for the opinion presented by a couple of people that the Kaktovik numeral system is similar to the Roman one.

> At first students would convert their assigned math problems into Kaktovik numerals to do calculations, but middle school math classes in Kaktovik began teaching the numerals in equal measure with their Hindu-Arabic counterparts in 1997.

Worth noting this detail towards the bottom of the article: > Scores on the California Achievement Test in mathematics for the Kaktovik middle school improved dramatically in 1997 compared to previous years.

Personally I'm waiting for Kaktovik numerals in unicode.

To remedy this problem, students in Kaktovik, Alaska, invented a base-20 numeral notation Nobody suggest this to the Danes, please.

Cross over into Alaska and you'll find Utqiagvik and Kaktovik.

Kaktovik numerals are quite nice for hex as well.