A brief history of numerical systems - Alessandra King
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... and 0. With just these ten symbols, we can write any rational number imaginable. But why these particular symbols? Why ten of them? And why do we arrange them the way we do? Alessandra King gives a brief history of numerical systems.
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- Educator Alessandra King
- Director Michael Kalopaidis
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Producer Zedem Media
- Illustrator Jeanne Bornet
- Animator Maria Savva
- Sound Designer Andreas Trachonitis
- Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Julianna Zarzycki
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base ten system
I like the base ten system because I feel like it keeps numbers from getting messy. I also like that it relates to the metric system which is very valuable for students to understand! It is something that is much more universal than the US's counting system. I also like that students can visualize every time you move to the next group of numbers because after you see a 9 at the end of a number you know that it needs to go to the next 10 and end in a zero. I feel like this system is easily understood and keeps math from getting as messy.
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