Numbers Count - Not to Nine   FreEnglish
Channel: FreEnglish
Date: 2019-06-18

Learn Easy English and Math

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Purpose:  Introduce numbers and basic math to early learners. 


i.  Welcome to Number: Not to nine!
ii.  Why do I need numbers? 
iii. Numbers tell us: How many?   How much?   iv. Also Number Count. 

1-1.   One 
1-2. I have one head with one nose and one mouth.
1-3.  Our number one is a line drawn from the top down. 
1-4. Here are more ones.
There is one sun and one moon too! 
1-5. The Chinese number ‘one’ is drawn side-to-side 

2-1. Two 
2-2. I have two eyes.
2-3 I have two arms and hands and two legs and feet too. 
2-4. Here are more two's.
Animals have two eyes. 
2-5. Bicycles or bikes have 2 tires. “Bi” means two. 

3-1. Three 
3-2. My fingers have three parts. 
3-3. Triangles have three sides. This sign is a triangle. 
3-4. Traffic lights have three colors. 
3-5.  Here are more three's. 
Triceratops had 3 horns.
3-6. A tricycle has three wheels. “Tri” means three 

4-1. Four 
4-2. Squares have four equal sides. 
4-3 Rectangles have four sides but two are longer. 
4-3. Here are more four's.
Many animals have 4 legs.
4-4. Four quarters make a dollar. 
4-5. There are 4 seasons. 
4-6. Cars and Quad cycles have four tires. Quad means four. 

5-1. Five 
5-2. I have five fingers on one hand. 
5-3. I have five toes on one foot. 
5-4. Here are more five's. This starfish has five legs. 
5-5. This star has five points. 
5-6. Pentagons have 5 sides. Penta means five. 

6-1. Six
6-2. These insects each have six legs.
6-3. Here are more six's. 
These building blocks and dice each have six faces. 
6-4. This pencil (yellow) has six sides. 
6-5. These snowflakes have 6 main branches.
6-6. These natural rocks (Giant Causeway) have six sides.  
6-7.  Bees make hexagon shaped honeycombs with six sides. Hexa means six. 

7-1. Seven 
7-2 There are seven colors in this rainbow! 
(red orange yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet callee ROYGBIV)
7-3 These UK Coins (20 and 50 pence) each have seven sides. 
7-4. Here are more seven's. 
There are seven days in a week. 
7-5. In the West, 7 is a lucky number especially in Las Vegas (777 Jackpot)

8-1. Eight 
 8-2. These flowers each have eight petals.
8-3. An octopus has eight arms.
8-4. Spiders have eight legs.
8-5. A stop sign has 8 sides.
It is an octagon. Octa means eight. 
8-6.   Interesting! October is our tenth month but it is named after the Roman eight Month 
8-7. In China, 8 is a lucky number. 
The Chinese Olympics started at 8 pm on the eighth day of the eighth month of 2008. 

9-1. Nine 
9-2. Here are nine balls. (Pool)
9-3. Baseball often has nine innings.
9-4. 999 is used to call emergency in England. 
9-5.  K-9  (text canine) means police dog. 
 
10-1. Now, we have learned our numbers, counting one to nine. 
10-2. But, this is not enough. 

11-1. A ‘number’ for nothing is needed.
11-2. This is zero. 
 11-3 Zero, alone, means none, zip, nada, zilch. 
11-4. In England they call zero, a not.  

12-1. Let Count fingers! 
(Count  1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10)
12-2. The number ten is made of the number one followed by a zero. 
12-3. Add a zero to make the number One into ten and Two into twenty.  

13-1. Let’s count by tens: 
10-20-30-40- 50-60-70-80-90. 

14-1. Next,Two zeros turn 1 into One Hundred 
14-2. Let’s count by hundreds 
100-200-300-400- 500-600-700-800-900. 

15-1 Now, for a surprise. This is the number 1,000. See the three zeros? 

16-1. Notice how zero has a special job.  
16-2. In the numbers 10, 100, 1,000 
Zero holds the ones,tens and hundreds places. 
 We use this when we do math like add
(Show example) and take away (show example)

17-1. Let’s see why number zero important!

18-1. Here are examples of different number systems that do Not have zero. 
18-2. These are Roman Number. (show Roman numerals. I II IIIIV VVIVIIVIIIIXX. 
18-4 People do math on counting boards and then use these numbers to write the answer. 
18-5. Similar with Chinese Numbers and an abacus .   (show Chinese characters)

19-1.  Our Numbers (text Hindu-Arabic) were made in India and used by Arabic Nations who gave them to people in Europe. 
 
20-1 Today, With our  not to nine numbers, we can do math directly! 

21-1. To recap, we can count up to ten on our fingers. 
21-2. 
[ 5 + 4 =9 ] Five plus four equals nine. 

22-1 What do we do when we want to count more than 10 fingers? 

 23-1  We use NOT to NINE numbers to do math directly. 
23-2. Here is an example. 
 29+ 16= 45 ( show carrying the one on top)
23-3. Notice how the numbers move to the next column. This is possible because zero is a place holder. 

C-1 To close, I need numbers to... 
C-2 count, 
C-3 pay bills,
C-4  tell times and dates,
 C-5 And make phone calls. 
C-6  Who would have thought - that nine numbers and a not - can really do a lot!