Feb
01
2012
“Digital Learning Day” February 1, 2012
Posted by roser in Uncategorized, tags: Base 10, Base 3, Digital Learning Day, Egyptian Number SystemIn honor of Digital Learning Day, I’m asking a group of my students who have been exploring different numeration systems to respond to these questions by posting a comment on my Math blog:
What are similarities and differences that you’ve found between our Base 10 Number System and the “Land of Treble’s” Base 3 Number System?
Please share an interesting fact that you’ve discovered about the Ancient Egyptian Number System.
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I learned that two thirds looks like a birds beak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The similarities and diferences in the The base 3 system and the base 10 number system are…… They both trade for a larger unit once they need one but in the base 10 system you have to trade 10 ones for one 10 block and in the base 3 system you have to get three gickles for one bickle.
they are very differet because the nubers are very different because the different number system ad the place value. they are acually simalar because they both have place value. something interesting about the egyptian number system is that ther is a face value, meaning it doesn’t matter what the order of the symbols(charachters meaning somthing) are placed.
Face value is cool no required order
I learned that our base 10 and the base of 3 land of treble is that instead of ones, tens, hundreds it’s gickels,bickls, and rickls and also since the land of treble is base 3 it is 3,6,9 in english.
There is a big difference between the base ten system and egyptian numeratian system. One difference is that the ancient egyptian numeration system uses the face system rather than the base ten system. The difference is that in the face system it doesn’t matter where you put the numbers.
Egyptians may have been the first cilvilisation to practice the scientific arts.That sounds sciencey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The base three number system usually uses more digits than the base ten number system because every three numbers it goes up a place value where as the base ten number system changes place value every ten digits. But base sixteen usually uses less digits than base ten because every sixteen numbers the place value changes.
i figured out that the egyptian number system is different than ours because face value(pictures) instead of place value. egyptian number system can be in a random order it still means the same thing. if we put our numbers in any random order it would mean something totally different. for example if i did 365 but put it in a random order like this 563 it would be totally different meaning. But there are pictures that represent numbers so they can be in any random order and still mean the same thing. sorry if that was confusing.
Badgerdude– is that in the Egyptian Number System? Aren’t the symbols for numbers interesting? Is that a place value or face value system? Please tell me more!
they both do not have to be read in place value.
Raine~~nice observation about Base 10 and Base 3 number systems!!! Which one do you find to be more efficient?
they both think if you use the same number twice it means nothing.
In the egyption letter system there is a reed for i and e? Do you think it is like a c in english because c can sound like s and a k?
base 10 is similar to base three because they both use arabic numerals
The egyptian number system is really intresting because you can show fractions,numbers and letters all in pictures and it doesn’t have to be in a special order because it doesn’t have place value it has face value the hieroglyphics don’t need a special place.That is how the Egyptian number system is realy intresting to me.
no 0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amazing they leave 0 as nothin’
they both have no lace values put pictures
they both have no numbers for zero
The egyption number system is face value. That means it doesn’t matter what order the symbols are in. Another interesting fact about the egyption number system is that in the Rhind Papyrus there are the equations that the engineers used to build the pyramids.
Mrs.Rose
I think the base ten number system appears more afficient because 10 is a even number 3 is not. Even numbers are easier to trade than odd. I am also familiar with the base 10 system so it is easier.
an interesting fact about the aincent egyptian number system is that there is no symbol for 10,000,000 or above(1,000,000 is an astonished man)
the land of treble has to regroup every time they get three of something
Mrs.Rose,
The two thirds is in the face value system (ancient egyptian numeration system). Yes, symbols for numbers are very interesting, I always ask my parents why things are called what they are I’m sure on more than one occasion I’ve asked them why some numbers are what they are. They are one of the most interesting things in my opinion.
From,
Badgerdude
I think it would take a lot longer to get to 100 in base 3 then base ten.
I think the differance between the base 3 system and the base 10 is that every 3 numbers the place value changes in the base 3 system and every 10 numbers for the base 10 system. Egyption engyneers and mathmaticians used egyption numbers, symbals and algabra was used t o build pyramids.
adding egyptian numerals is fun. dividing and multiplying are pretty hard……….
it would take longer to count to 100 in base three than egyption number system
adding is really fun with egypt numerals
To my Fourth-Grade Students,
Thanks so much for all your comments and observations about Base 3 and Base 10 Number Systems! You’ve identified some key simililarities and differences between these two place value systems and you’ve made some awesome connections to the face value Ancient Egyptian Number System!
How did you like leaving your comments online? I’m glad you had a chance to read each other’s comments and please feel free to comment on your classmates’ comments as well. As you know, I’m moderating your comments and am interested to see what you’re thinking. You can continue this discussion from home, with your parent’s permission.
Best,
Mrs. Rose
P.S. SO PROUD OF YOU!!! Happy Digital Learning Day, every day!!!
I thought it was interesting that there is no symbol for 0 in the Egyptian Number System.