A.

few numbers have special names (in addition to their regular names):

o 0: has several other names, depending on context: zero: formal scientific usage,
o 1 : ace: in certain sports and games, as in tennis or golf, indicating success with one
stroke, and the face of a die or playing card with one pip , solo
o 3. trey: the face of a die or playing card with three pips, trio
o 4: cater: (rare) the face of a die or playing card with four pips, quartet
o 5: cinque: (rare) the face of a die or playing card with five pips ,quintet, nickel (informal
American, from the value of the nickel (United States coin), but applied in non-monetary
references)

B. Multiplicative numerals

A few numbers have specialised multiplicative numerals expresses how many fold or how many
time.
One time Once ,
two times Twice
three times Thrice

C. Negative numbers

The name of a negative number is the name of the corresponding positive number preceded by
"minus" or (American English) "negative". Thus -5.2 is "minus five point two" or "negative five
point two". For temperatures, Americans colloquially say "below" —short for "below zero"— so
a temperature of -5° is "five below".

D. Ordinal numbers
See also: Numbering of storeys in buildings
Ordinal numbers refer to a position in a series. Common ordinals include:
0th zeroth 10th tenth    
1st first 11th eleventh    
2nd second 12th twelfth 20th twentieth
3rd third 13th thirteenth 30th thirtieth
4th fourth 14th fourteenth 40th fortieth
5th fifth 15th fifteenth 50th fiftieth
6th sixth 16th sixteenth 60th sixtieth
7th seventh 17th seventeenth 70th seventieth

E. Whether to use digits or words

According to most copy editors and English teachers,[citation needed] the numbers zero to nine
inclusive should be "written out" – meaning instead of "1" and "2", one would write "one" and
"two".

Example: "I have two apples." (Preferred)

 Example: "I have 2 apples."

After "nine", one can head straight back into the 10, 11, 12, etc., although some write out the
numbers until "twelve".

Example: "I have 28 grapes." (Preferred)

F. Empty numbers

Colloquial English has a small vocabulary of empty numbers that can be employed when there is
uncertainty as to the precise number to use, but it is desirable to define a general range:
specifically, the terms "umpteen", "umpty", and "zillion". These are derived etymologically from
the range affixes:

 "-teen" (designating the range as being between 10 and 20)

 "-ty" (designating the range as being in one of the decades between 20 and 100)
 "-illion" (designating the range as being above 1,000,000; or, more generally, as being
extremely large).

The prefix "ump-" is added to the first two suffixes to produce the empty numbers "umpteen"
and "umpty": it is of uncertain origin. There is a noticeable absence of an empty number in the
hundreds range.

G. EXPONENTIATION
The expression "53" is pronounced as "five, raised to the third power" or "five to the third"
There are two specially-named powers: "to the second power" is generally pronounced as
"squared", and "to the third power" is generally pronounced as "cubed". So "5 3" is commonly
pronounced as "five cubed
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To simplify this, I can think in terms of what those exponents mean. "To the third" means
"multiplying three copies" and "to the fourth" means "multiplying four copies". Using
this fact, I can "expand" the two factors, and then work backwards to the simplified form
Anything to the power zero is just "1".

H. Decimal

All decimals follow the singular-plural system for English nouns in that the number is spoken as
the digit followed by the name of the decimal with any decimal larger than one taking the plural -
–s marker. A period is placed between the whole number and the decimal. For example:

 0.1 – point one, zero point one, oh point one

 1.25 – one point two five
 6.425 – six point four two five
 2.1368 two point one three six eight
 1.057 – one point oh five seven
  4.0098 – four point zero zero nine eight

I. Fractions

Finally teach the ESL students how to form fractions in English. The numerator (the top number)
is spoken as a cardinal number and the denominator (the bottom number) as an ordinal number.
However, half is used in place of second and sometimes quarter in place of fourth. For fractions
in which the numerator is larger than one, the denominator takes the plural -s suffix. English
fractions are also written with a hyphen between the numerator and denominator. For example:

 1/2 – one-half
 1/3 – one-third
 2/3 – two-thirds
 1/4 – one-fourth, one-quarter
 4/5 – four-fifths
 99/100 – ninety-nine one hundredths, ninety-nine hundredths

Fractions may also be spoken as cardinal number-over-cardinal number. For example:

 1/2 – one over two

 1/3 – one over three
 2/3 – two over three
 1/4 – one over four
 4/5 – four over five
 99/100 – ninety-nine over one hundred

J. Converting Fractions to Decimals

For example, try converting 2/3 into a decimal. Whether you do it by hand or with a calculator,
the result will be .6666666…. It will never stop! We write these results as decimals with a line
over the repeating number. For example, you would write the above repeating decimals as .6
with a line over the six.

K. Converting Decimals to Fractions

It’s easy to convert a decimal to a fraction, assuming that you know how to read a decimal
correctly. For example, you would read the decimal .2 as “two tenths” – which is actually a
fraction! So .2 = 2/10. You would read the decimal .25 as “twenty-five hundredths,” so .25 =
25/100.