La Yupana, calculadora para niños. Un camino para aprender cálculo mental.

Abstract

This article shows how Yupana has become a great strategy to develop mental calculation skills in children with indigenous cultural roots. Being a sign of the recognition of ethnomathematics as a means that allows adaptation to an environment with special characteristics, likewise, it talks about the process on the construction of the primer that adapts to children who lack an accompanying teacher, providing them with the necessary guidelines and examples. so that they can implement and develop the proposed exercises of the Yupana. In the same way, it seeks to promote the use of the Yupana in different school environments, in which students manage to appropriate it and thus improve their learning process, since it has been designed for primary school students, which may be within the scope of your interpretation and understanding. Likewise, teachers will be able to access it to bring integrated learning to the classroom.