August 25, 2021

NUMBERS AND COUNTING Targets

1. Define numeral or digit.

2. Identify numbers easily.
3. Read numbers quickly and easily.
4. Use notation correctly.
5. Explain cardinal and ordinal numbers.
6. Define even and odd numbers.
7. Define prime and composite number.
8. State sets of numbers.

Numeral or Digit: Let's talk numbers!

A symbol or a figure that expresses a number.
- How well do you know the English names of the
numbers?
- Can you say the names of the numbers from 0 to
100?
- Can you count by 10's?
- Can you count by 100's?

Now, it's time to hear how to pronounce numbers.

http://www.languageguide.org/english/numbers/
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Large Numbers
Activity:
Let's read!
Now, it's time to check how to spell numbers:
• There were about 120,000 people in the cinema.
It was massive! https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/numbers/exercises?
type=cardinal

• We produce 342,876,288 cans of elephant food

every year.

• I can’t leave until I’ve beaten Kat’s score

of 12,073. I’m going to be here all night.

How do you read large numbers correctly?

Rule 1) Rule 2)
Do NOT make 'one hundred', 'one thousand',
etc. plural!

So don’t say:
4,000 — “four thousands”
Say:
4,000 — “four thousand”
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Rule 3) REMEMBER!!

  NUMBERS WORDS
50 _____________ Large & Small Numbers
77 _____________
When we write large numbers the digits are
112 _____________
grouped into 3's, or "thousands". This can be with
247 _____________
a comma or a space.
999 _____________
e.g. 87,654,321 or 87 654 321
1,000 one thousand
5,015 _____________
10,000 ten thousand When we write small numbers the digits are
47,151 _____________ placed after a "decimal point" (period or full-stop)
100,000 one hundred thousand
and can be grouped into 3's, or "thousands" with a
space.
450,020 _____________
1,000,000 one million e.g. 0.87654321 or 0.876 543 21

1,000,000,000 one billion

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Cardinal Numbers: Ordinal Numbers How to write Ordinal Numbers...

express the express the order of the
quantitative property numbers.
of the numbers. Some examples are
e.g. 5; 10; 23; 65; 3,500 below:
- dates th
(i.e.6 of September)

- rankings
- floor nd
( i.e. 2 floor) Some Examples:
The third horse on the left is looking at me strangely.
- order of things May I introduce you to my seventh brother?
This is the fifth computer he’s bought this year.
You’re the ninety-ninth person to ask me that today.
It’s the fifty-second week of the year. Finally!

Definitions:

Activity: Define 'even' and 'odd' numbers in your Even numbers are divisible by 2 (can be divided by 2).
own words.

Odd numbers are not divisible by 2 (cannot be divided by 2).

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)
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Attention!!
Prime vs Composite Numbers - So, 0 (zero) and 1 (one) are neither prime
nor composite numbers.

Definition: A prime number is - 2 (two) is the only even prime number.

i.e.

Definition: A composite number is

i.e.

Place the symbols and numbers appropriately.

Sets of Numbers

Turkish English Description

Natural or Counting Numbers
N+ N 1,2,3,4,5,......
Whole Numbers
N W 0,1,2,3,4,...

Z Z Integers
{....,-2,-1,0,1,2,....}

Q Q Rational Numbers

Q' Q'
Irrational Numbers
R/Q

R R
Real Numbers
Q U Q' = R

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