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Numbers – The action and imagination |
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Creative Context |
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Numbers – The action and imagination These web pages has been set up by
Adrian Spendlow to gather ideas on the theme of
numbers, for the East Riding’s Creative Context project for 2006.
Do The Math
Numbers Front Page Do The Math Very
early days, but this is the list of any ideas we have that connect with
numbers. It will be updated as we go. Odds
on Against Tally One
to a thousand and one A
million to one always wins All
sixes and sevens I
am aiming to be number one You
go figure Who
invented the zero and started it all? A lady asked this by emails. She
thought it was either the Aztecs or the Egyptians. As the Egyptians are older
perhaps it as them. Lucky
numbers Unlucky
numbers Counting farmhands When
giving out jobs the staff were
numbered like this; Foggy, Waggoner, Foddy, Fowt and Tommy-out There
were also different counting words for checking your sheep. Does anyone know
those? Ask your grandparents. What
are you reminded off by a number An
email from an older person tells us that she is reminded by the no. 1 of no.
1 Marton Road which was the workhouse where the poor people were kept. How to count Counting
stones Abacus |