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MATH IN THE REAL WORLD

How did people count things before there were

numbers? Before there were numbers, when people
wanted to count something they put other objects
What Did together to keep track of how many things there were.

We Use to At first they used their fingers, and then they started
to use objects that were easy to find like sticks and
Count Things? stones. But it started to get harder and harder to count

lots of things, so people started to write down how
many there were and that’s where numbers came from.

There are signs that people in the Inca Empire in South

America counted things by tying knots in differently
colored strings, and people in Europe and Africa made
marks on animal bones.

Think about how we would count things today if we
didn’t have numbers.

▲ Animal bones with marks ▲ Showing numbers
carved into them by tying knots in a string

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