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Todayweusenumbersveryoften.Buthaveyoueverthoughtaboutnumbers?
Wethinkthatcountingiseasy.Butitwasnoteasylongago.Peopledidn’tknowhowtocount.Whentheyhadtocounttheircowsandhorsestheyusedtheirnames.
Whenpeoplefirstbegantocounttheydidnotusenumbernameslike“one”“two”and“three”.Sometimetheyusedshortsticks.Butveryoftentheyusedtheirfingers.
“Ten”hasbecomeanimportantnumberbecausewehavetenfingers.Inmanylanguagesoftodaypeopleusetentomakeallnumbersfrom11to99.“Thirteen”isshortfor“threeandten”“twenty”for“twotens”andsoon.
Toshownumbersabovetennumbernamesaremoreusefulthanfingers.Wecanonlycountuptotenwithourfingers.Wecanholdupsevenfingersandshowthatthereare365daysinayear.
Numbernamesareveryusefulbutsomepeoplestillhavenamesfornumbersabovethreeorfour.Theyuse“many”forthosenumbers.
( )1.Countingwasdifficultlongago.
( )2.Whenpeoplefirstbegantocounttheyusednumbernames.
( )3.Longagopeopleusedtentomakeallthenumbersfrom11to99butwedonot.
( )4.“Twenty”camefrom“twotens”.
( )5.Fingersaremoreusefulthannumbernamestoshownumbersaboveten.