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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.

The Numbers Page            Ideas Added

                               Do The Math      Numbers Front Page

 

 

 The Numbers Pages

 

 

1

   Numero Uno (How spelt?)

   The best

   The leader

    Foggy - the first farmhand on the job

2               Two’s a crowd! - Twos company

     Waggoner - second farmhand

      Two by two

       Binary is the future

3               Three’s a crowd

      Foddy - third farmhand

4               Who lives here?

    Fowt - fourth - farmhand

5               Primary colours – The numbers in art - limericks

     Tommy-out - last farmhand

6 Looks like a tadpole! – taking sides

7 Like a cliff – lucky

   7th son of a 7th son (or daughter but it doesn’t scan as well)

   Ladybird spots?

8 Hungry?

   Spider legs (or eyes)

9  Cats

    What team?

10  Perfect

11           Legs

      A team

12  Even – what happens when – which comes first

13  Look out - Bakers dozen (why?)

14  Be my Valentine – one pound

15  Ways to be my friend

16 how many pounds are you? How many are 5 stone?

17 haiku have 17 syllables – numbers haiku

18 Keys

19 The average age of a dying soldier

20 

21 more keys

22 what did the two little ducks do?

23

24

25 shall we bake a pie

26 two and six includes the cruet – letter poems -

27

28

29

30  things to look through a microscope at

31  Tanka in honour of the mighty

32

33

34 wonders of the world

35

36

37 what is your temperature?

38

39

40 life starts here

41

42 the meaning of everything

43

44  keeping tally

45

46

47

48  Things to remember

49

50

51

52  Happy birthday – what happens in each one – how many

53

54

55

56

57

58

59

60

61

62

63 how many people?

64  When the Beatles loved

65  When should we stop work -  think of things to do all day

66

67   odds on

68 even

69

70

71

72

73

74

75

76 trombones

77  sunsets

78

79

80

81

82

83

84 young again in Numberland

85

86 

87

88 Somebody very strange lives here

89

90

91

92

93

94

95

96

97 cm away from the person you love

98

99

100           cent

       A centurion was in charge of a hundred men

       Millipede?

101 get rid of things in here

and on and on and on and

 

911

999

1000 - A Cohort was in charge of a thousand men

           A centipede?

1001 - So, a cohort and his men then

 

 Dodecahedron etc