Numeric Symbols

Don't worry about counting yet. You can learn about counting and orders in the next section. We're going to introduce you to the shapes and words used to describe numbers and values. There are dozens of ways that the world may describe the value of "one" and we will show you some of them. The big idea to remember is that it is always a "one." Whether it is un, uno or I... It still stands for "one." The ideas in math are universal even though the names and shapes may change.

Roman

The Roman civilization was around about 2,000 years ago. They built a number system that was based on letters in their alphabet.

Mayan

The Mayan civilization from Central America developed a number system based on tens but used circles and bars to represent their numbers.

Chinese

The Chinese language often uses symbols to represent longer words that we might write out. Each of those symbols can be used to represent a number.

English

We wanted to add a bit about English because you will need to know how to write numbers out in many word problems. Knowing numbers will get you a long way in math, but you also need to know that the word "eight" is the same thing as the number "8."

Modern Symbols

These are the big ten shapes used to represent numbers in the modern world. They were first developed in India about 1,500 years ago (especially the number zero). The first row introduces you to the numbers. We added a second row of many symbols you might encounter with those numbers when you are first learning math.

A sample of numbers using the current numbering symbols.

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