Ancient Bones
An ancient objects used in order to keep track of objects in the real world.
What is a tally stick?
Represented as LVII in Roman numerals.
What is 57?
A number greater than any assignable quantity or countable number whose symbol is ∞.
What is infinity?
Grouping, matching and categorizing based on certain shared characteristicts.
What is classififcation?
A way to count a group of objects by assigning one number to each object and only counting each object once
What is a one-to-one correspondence?
The number 69 in Roman numerals.
What is LXIX?
A whole number greater than 1 that cannot be exactly divided by any whole number other than itself and 1
What is a prime number?
The ability to recognize the shapes of things as well as their relationship to each other in space, such as 'next to', 'under', 'over' and 'curved'
What is spatial and positional conepts?
An oblong frame with rows of wires or grooves along which beads are slid, used for calculating things.
What is an abacus?
The country were our modern number system arose.
What is India?
Math for math's sake that explores abstract concepts, complex theories and never-before-solved problems.
What is abstract mathematics?
The understanding that a quantity of something remains the same even if it appears to change in some ways.
What is conservation?
The oldest known mathematical object, a 35,000-year-old fibula of a baboon carved with 29 notches.
What is the Lebombo Bone?
a Hindu-Arabic numeral that was developed later than all others.
What is zero?
Involves the application of mathematics to problems which arise in various areas, e.g., science, engineering or other diverse areas, and/or the development of new or improved methods to meet the challenges of new problems.
What is applied mathematics?
Being able to put things in a particular order based on certain characteristics?
What is seriation?
A bone discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960 by Belgian explorer Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt.
What is the Ishango Bone?
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0
What are the Hindu-Arabic numerals?
The abstract science of number, quantity, and space; may be studied in its own right, or as it is applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering.
What is mathematics?
These skills must be mastered in order for a person to make progress in mathematics.
What is cognitive?