The chess problem in al-Biruni's chronology of ancient nations in a proposed learning object for mathematics in teacher training
History of medieval Islamic mathematics. The chess problem. Alliance. Al-Biruni. Learning Objects
We understand that mathematics has been and is being produced in different regions of the planet. As an example of this, we highlight contributions from Islamic scholars from the medieval period, among them, we have Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (973 – 1048) who developed, despite living in a context of political instability due to the rise of the Islam religion, a vast amount of writings in different fields of knowledge that we know today as mathematics, physics, geography and others. An example of al-Biruni's contribution is in the work A Chronology of Ancient Nations (made in the year 1000). Thus, a fragment, called The Chess Problem, from these writings becomes the object of our dissertation research. Therefore, this research has a qualitative methodology with a theoretical and practical phase. To this end, we adopted bibliographic and documentary procedures, starting with a bibliographic survey of sources about al-Biruni, his production and its context, regarding the history of medieval Islamic mathematics, as well as about the alliance between the History of Mathematics and Digital Technology, particularly, Learning Objects. After the bibliographic phase, we began documentary research by studying the content of the text A Chronology of Ancient Nations, by al-Biruni, with focus on the fragmente The Chess Problem to develop an Educational Product of the Learning Object type, using resources available in the web which can be used in teaching situations, through the alliance between trends in mathematical education History of Mathematics and Digital Technologies.