Ancient Egyption Maths

Ancient Egyptian numbers

Learning Intention:  to understand place value by using Ancient Egyptian numbers.

Challenge:

What number is this? Why?

23 because the l is 1 and the n is like 10's so 2 tens make 20 + 3 = 23

Some Ancient Egyptian numbers

	1
	10
	100

Challenge:

What are these numbers?

	144
	602
	379
	314
	636
	379
	379

What is the same about the last two numbers?

in both rows they have the 3 of 100 7 of 10 and 9 of one's

What is different about the last two numbers?

they are in different order

Challenge:

Change these numbers into Ancient Egyptian numbers. Insert a photo of your number written on a whiteboard.

7	this is seven in  ancient egyptian numbers because l is the  one's
42	this is 42 because it has 4 tens and  which is the n nd 2 ones which is the l
220	this number is 220 because the is hundreds and you had to of the hundreds and that will make 200 then add to 10's ( n ) and it would make 20 add to together 220
608	this is 608 because it had 6 of the and 8 of the l altogether that makes 608
795	this is 795 because it has the hundred sign( ) have 9 n and 5 l

Addition

Challenge:

Now try adding numbers. You cannot draw modern maths symbols like + and =.

7 + 5
36 + 15
274 + 418
593 + 109

Subtraction

Challenge:

Now try subtracting numbers. You cannot draw modern maths symbols like - and =.

12 - 3
23 - 17
445 - 152
623 - 249

What can you understand about Ancient Egyptian numbers compared to modern numbers?

What I know about it is that there numbers and that ancient egyptian numbers can be written fast like for 100 that is but the modern numbers you would have to count 1 to 100.

L.I To understand place values by using ancient egyption

Today i have finished off my work for maths.What we did was ancient egyption numbers.I learnt that a  is 100 and n is 10 and a l is 1.