numeration

A boy wakes up to find a strange day where everything is even, his mother has two heads, and a field trip turns into a very odd ordeal.

Describes how finger counting is used for communication of price and quantity in an East African market place.

Explores the origins of figures through the ages including numerology, superstitions, everyday measurements, sayings and quotations. Also covers numerical records, oddities and games.

Presents an overview of the history of math, in simple text with illustrations, from the earliest use of counting numbers to using numbers to solve problems.

Traces the development of the various number systems that have been used in the world, including the Arabic, Chinese, Egyptian, Gothic, Greek, Roman, and Sanskrit systems.

Traces the history of mathematics, focusing on the concept of numbers, their properties and uses.

Birds and animals joining and leaving the group introduce basic principles of adding and subtracting.

A simple introduction to numbers and the principles of multiplication.

Chronicles the history of counting and calculating from the time of cave dwellers to the late twentieth century, examining how different cultures used numbers to solve basic problems related to their everyday needs.

Includes an assortment of activities and illustrations to help explain numbers.