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Ministry of General and Professional Education of the Sverdlovsk Region Municipal Educational Institution Secondary School No. 62

Direction: scientific - technical


The secret of Arabic numbers


Performers:

Nadyrshin Damir Rafaelevich

Chekasin Egor Romanovich

Head: Kulchitskaya L.A.

Mathematics teacher at VKK

Municipal educational institution secondary school No. 62


Ekaterinburg, 2011

Introduction


Goal of the work:

1. Get acquainted with the figures of antiquity:

Arabic

Different peoples

Chinese

Devanagari

Modern

2. Learn about Arabic numerals: their writing, history and development

3. Find out why Arabic numerals are more convenient than other number systems

We will get acquainted with the numbers of different peoples and trace their development from antiquity to the present day. We will find out why the Arabic number system is the most convenient? What did the numbers look like in ancient times? How were Chinese numbers written? How and when did Europeans become familiar with Arabic numerals? Why is the number system of Ancient Rome inconvenient? You will learn this in the essay “The Secret of the Origin of Arabic Numbers”


1. Arabic numerals


1.1 The secret of the origin of Arabic numbers


The traditional name of ten mathematical signs: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Using them, any numbers are written in the decimal number system. For thousands of years, people have used their fingers to indicate numbers. So, they, like us, showed one object with one finger, three with three. You could use your hand to show up to five units. Both hands and, in some cases, both feet were used to express more quantity. Nowadays we use numbers all the time. We use them to measure time, buy and sell, make phone calls, watch TV, and drive a car. In addition, each person has different numbers that personally identify him. For example, on an ID card, on a bank account, on a credit card, etc. Moreover, in the computer world, all information, including this text, is transmitted through numerical codes.

We encounter numbers at every step and are so accustomed to them that we hardly realize how important a role they play in our lives. Numbers are part of human thinking. Throughout history, every people wrote numbers, counted and calculated with their help. The first written numbers for which we have reliable evidence appeared in Egypt and Mesopotamia about five thousand years ago. Although the two cultures were very far apart, their number systems are very similar, as if they represented the same method - using notches on wood or stone to record the passing of days. Egyptian priests wrote on papyrus, and in Mesopotamia on soft clay. Of course, the specific forms of their numerals are different, but both cultures used simple dashes for units and other marks for tens and higher orders. In addition, in both systems the desired number was written by repeating the dashes and marks the required number of times.

Two Egyptian documents dating back about four thousand years ago have been found containing the oldest mathematical records yet discovered. It is worth noting that these are records of a mathematical nature, and not just numerical ones.

1.2 History


The history of our familiar “Arabic” numbers is very confusing. It is impossible to say exactly and reliably how they happened. One thing is certain: it is thanks to the ancient astronomers, namely their precise calculations, that we have our numbers. Between the 2nd and 6th centuries AD. Indian astronomers became acquainted with Greek astronomy. They adopted the sexagesimal system and the round Greek zero. The Indians combined the principles of Greek numbering with the decimal multiplicative system taken from China. They also began to denote numbers with one sign, as was customary in the ancient Indian Brahmi numbering. The brilliant Seville translated this book into Latin, and the Indian system of counting spread widely throughout Europe.

The numbers originated in India, no later than the 5th century. At the same time, the concept of zero (shunya) was discovered and formalized. Arabic numerals originated in India, no later than the 5th century. At the same time, the concept of zero was discovered and formalized, which made it possible to move on to positional notation. which Arabic numerals became known to Europeans in the 10th century. Thanks to the close ties between Christian Barcelona and Muslim Cordoba), Silvestre had access to scientific information that no one else had in Europe at that time. In particular, he was one of the first among Europeans to become acquainted with Arabic numerals, understand the convenience of their use compared to Roman ones, and began to introduce them into European science.

In the old Babylonian texts, dating back to 1700 BC, there is no special sign for zero; it was simply left with an empty space, more or less highlighted.


1.3 Writing numbers


The writing of Arabic numerals consisted of straight line segments, where the number of angles corresponded to the size of the sign. Probably one of the Arab mathematicians once proposed the idea of ​​connecting numeric value numbers with the number of angles in its writing.

Let's look at the Arabic numerals and see that

0 is a number without a single angle in the outline.

1 - contains one acute angle.

2 - contains two acute angles.

3 - contains three acute angles (the correct, Arabic, number shape is obtained when writing the number 3 when filling out the postal code on the envelope)

4 - contains 4 right angles (this explains the presence of a “tail” at the bottom of the number, which does not in any way affect its recognition and identification)

5 - contains 5 right angles (the purpose of the lower tail is the same as the number 4 - completion of the last corner)

6 - contains 6 right angles.

7 - contains 7 right and acute angles (the correct, Arabic, spelling of the number 7 differs from that shown in the figure by the presence of a hyphen crossing the vertical line at a right angle in the middle (remember how we write the number 7), which gives 4 right angles and 3 angles gives still the upper broken line)

8 - contains 8 right angles.

9 - contains 9 right angles (this is what explains the intricate lower tail of the nine, which had to complete 3 corners so that their total number becomes equal to 9.




We learned when and how Arabic numbers appeared, how they are written, what they are and the general meaning of the numbers


2. Numbers of different nations


Arabic numerals used in Arabic countries in Africa

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

◗ Indo - Arabic numerals

٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩

◗ Numbers in the Oriya letter.

୦୧୨୩୪୫୬୭୮୯

◗ Numbers in Tibetan script.

༠༡༢༣༤༥༦༧༨༩

◗ Numbers in Thai writing.

๐๑๒๓๔๕๖๗๘๙

◗ Numbers in Lao writing.

໐໑໒໓໔໕໖໗໘໙

The Egyptians wrote in hieroglyphs and numbers too. The Egyptians had signs to denote numbers from 1 to 10 and special hieroglyphs to denote tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions and even tens of millions. The next stage in the history of numbers was carried out by the ancient Romans. They invented a number system based on the use of letters to represent numbers. They used the letters "I", "V", "L", "C", "D", and "M" in their system. Each letter had a different meaning, each number corresponding to the position number of the letter. In order to read or write a Roman numeral, you need to follow a few basic rules.

In Central America in the first millennium AD, the Mayans wrote any number using only three characters: a dot, a line and an ellipse. A dot meant one, a line meant five, and a combination of dots and lines was used to write numbers from one to nineteen. An ellipse under any of these signs increased its value twenty times. Examples of numbers from Ancient Rome:

1 Letters are written from left to right, starting with the highest value. For example, “XV” – 15, “DLV” – 555, “MCLI” – 1151.

2 The letters "I", "X", "C", and "M" can be repeated up to three times in a row. For example, “II” – 2, “XXX” – 30, “CC” – 200, “MMCCXXX” – 1230.

3 The letters "V", "L" and "D" cannot be repeated.

4 The numbers 4, 9, 40, 90 and 900 should be written by combining the letters “IV” – 4, “IX” – 9, “XL” – 40, “XC” – 90, “CD” – 400, “SM” – 900. For example, 48 is “XLVIII”, 449 is “CDXLIX”. The value of the left letter decreases the value of the right one.

5 A horizontal line above a letter increases its value by 1000

Due to the use of a small number of characters to write a number, it was necessary to repeat the same character many times, forming a long series of symbols. In the documents of Aztec officials, there are accounts that indicated the results of the inventory and calculations of taxes received by the Aztecs from conquered cities. In these documents you can see long rows of characters that look like real hieroglyphs. In China, they used ivory or bamboo sticks to represent numbers from one to nine. The numbers from one to five were indicated by the number of sticks, depending on the number. So, two sticks corresponded to number two. And to indicate the numbers six to nine, one horizontal stick was placed at the top of the number. For example, 6 resembled the letter "T". The numbers, or symbols of our numbers, are of Arabic origin. Arab culture, in turn, they were borrowed from India. The period between the eighth and thirteenth centuries was one of the most brilliant periods in the history of science in the Muslim world. Muslims had close ties to both Asian and European cultures. They were able to extract the best from them. In India they borrowed the number system and some mathematical symbols.

The year 711 can be considered the year of the discovery of Indian numerals in the territories of the Middle East; they, of course, came to Europe much later. Why the Middle East? Well, it's a completely legitimate question. The fact is that the wonderful city of Bakhda - or as we used to call it - Baghdad in those days was quite an attractive place for scientists. Many scientific and pseudoscientific schools were opened there, in which, nevertheless, there was an exchange of acquired knowledge and skills. In 711 there was a treatise on the stars and, at the same time, on numbers. Now it is difficult to say whether the views on the numbers of that Indian scientist who presented the astronomical report to the world were progressive, but the fact that with his help we now have Arabic numerals is truly unforgettable and deserves much gratitude. At that time, science mainly used three number systems: Roman, Greek and Egyptian-Persian. In principle, they were quite convenient for running a small household of, say, one person, but writing down large numbers with their help was very difficult, although ancient Greek philosophers and mathematicians called their system of counting and recording numbers almost the most perfect in the world. By and large, of course, this was not true.

The method, invented by the Indians and brought to the world by the Arabs, was more convenient and economical, so it was possible to save not only resources for writing (be it papyrus, paper or even something else) but also your own time, which people at all times there was a catastrophic lack. Over time, the corners smoothed out, and the numbers took on the appearance we are familiar with. For many centuries, the whole world has been using the Arabic system of writing numbers. Huge meanings can be easily expressed with these ten icons. By the way, the word “digit” is also Arabic. Arab mathematicians translated the meaning of the Indian word “sunya” into their own language. Instead of “sunya” they began to say “sifr” or “digits”, and this is a word already familiar to us.


Very few written monuments of ancient Indian civilization have survived, but, apparently, Indian number systems went through the same stages in their development as in all other civilizations. On ancient inscriptions from Mohenjo-Daro, the vertical line in the recording of numbers is repeated up to thirteen times, and the grouping of symbols resembles that which is familiar to us from Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions. For some time a number system very reminiscent of the Attic one was in use, in which repetitions of collective symbols were used to represent the numbers 4, 10, 20 and 100. This system, called Kharoshti, gradually gave way to another, known as Brahmi, where the letters of the alphabet denoted units (starting with four), tens, hundreds and thousands. The transition from Kharoshti to Brahmi occurred in those years when in Greece, shortly after the invasion of India by Alexander the Great, the Ionic number system replaced the Attic one. It is quite possible that the transition from Kharoshti to Brahmi took place under the influence of the Greeks, but now it is hardly possible to somehow trace or restore this transition from the ancient Indian forms to the system from which our number systems are derived.

The inscriptions found at Nana Ghat and Nasik, dating back to the first centuries BC and the first centuries AD, appear to contain notations for numbers that were the direct predecessors of those now called the Indo-Arabic system. Initially, this system had neither a positional principle nor a zero symbol. Both these elements entered the Indian system by the 8th–9th centuries. along with Devanagari notation (see table of number notations. Recall that the positional number system with zero did not originate in India, since many centuries earlier it was used in Ancient Babylon in connection with the sexagesimal system. Since Indian astronomers used sexagesimal fractions, it is quite possible that this gave them the idea to transfer the positional principle from sexagesimal fractions to whole numbers written in the decimal system.

As a result, a shift occurred that led to the modern number system. It is also possible that such a transition, at least in part, took place in Greece, most likely in Alexandria, and from there spread to India. The latter assumption is supported by the similarity of the circle denoting zero with the outline of the Greek letter omicron.



We learned how the numbers of Ancient Rome were written and what they represented.

We learned about Ancient Indian numbers, their evolution, writing and types of writing.


3. Chinese numbers


3.1 Figure Normal way Formal Reading


0 〇 零 lнng

3 三参 sān

6 六陆 lish

10 十拾 shн

100 百佰 bai

1000 qiān

10000 万萬 wan

100.000.000 亿億ym


3.2 History


The origin of the Chinese number system is more ancient and is dated between 1500 and 1200 BC. At the end of the 19th century, peasants cultivating their fields found many turtle shells and animal bones inscribed with the characters of the ancient Chinese number system. The peasants, who did not know the importance of these drawings, sold these bones to a pharmacist, who decided that they belonged to a dragon and had healing properties. Many years later, a new number system appeared in another region of China. The needs of trade, management and science required the development of a new way of writing numbers. Using ivory or bamboo sticks, they marked the numbers from one to nine. They designated the numbers from one to five by the number of sticks depending on the number. Thus, two sticks corresponded to the number 2. To indicate the numbers six to nine, one horizontal stick was placed at the top of the number. The new number system was distinctive and positional: each digit had a specific meaning according to its place in the series expressing the number.

For about 4,000 thousand years, Chinese numerals have been the traditional way of writing numbers in Chinese writing. Moreover, other languages, such as Japanese, Korean, also use these Chinese characters to represent numbers and numbers. There are two sets of characters for displaying Chinese numerals - conventional notation for everyday use and formal notation used in a financial context, such as filling out checks. More complex symbols used in formal recording make financial documents much more difficult to falsify.

In Russia and other European countries, the amount in words is used for the same purpose. Numbers in this Chinese system, just like ours, in Arabic numbers, were written from left to right, from large to small. If there were no tens, units, or some other digit, then at first they did not put anything and moved on to the next digit. (During the Ming Dynasty, a sign for the empty digit was introduced - a circle, which is analogous to our zero.



We learned about Chinese numbers: how they are written, where and when they came from, and what they are.


4. Devanagari numbers


Devanagari is a type of Indian script, descended from the ancient Indian Brahmi script. It developed between the 8th and 12th centuries. Used in Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Marwari, Konkani, Bhojpuri, Nepali, Newar, and sometimes in Kashmiri and Romani. A characteristic feature of the Devanagari script is the top (base) horizontal line, to which the letters “hanging down” are attached. Deva-Naga-Ri" - Divine Nagas letter (or speech).

Principles of graphics construction

In Devanagari, every sign for a consonant by default also contains a designation for a vowel sound (a). To indicate a consonant without a vowel, you need to add a special subscript - halant (virama). Diacritics are used to indicate other vowels, as in Semitic writing systems. Special symbols are used for vowels at the beginning of a word. Consonants can form combinations in which the corresponding vowels are omitted. Combinations of consonants are usually written as fused or compound signs (ligatures).

“Devanagari”, “Virgo” - divine, (cognates words - “wonderful”, “amazing”)

"Naga" - Nagas (mythical people-snake people) who, according to legend, lived in India in ancient times. Nagas could be gods, demigods, or associates of gods.

"Ri" - (same root word speech) speech, writing, law, order, ritual.



We learned a lot about Devanagari numbers: how they are written and their decoding

5. Modern numbers


No matter how large a number is, it can be written using just ten numerical signs, numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, b, 7, 8, 9, 0. Numbers, like the rules of arithmetic, are not immediately accessible to anyone invented, not invented. Modern figures have been developed over many centuries. The improvement of the writing of numbers went in parallel with the development of writing. At first there were no letters. Thoughts and words were expressed using drawings on rocks, on the walls of caves, on stones. To remember numbers, people used notches on trees and sticks and knots on ropes. Then, naturally, they began to denote the number one with one dash, two with two, three with three dashes, etc. Traces of such numbers are found, for example, in the Roman system: I, II, III. But with the development of production and culture, when the need arose to write down large numbers, it became inconvenient to use dashes. Then they began to introduce special signs for individual numbers. Each number, like each word, was indicated by a special icon, a hieroglyph.

In ancient Egypt, about 4,000 years ago, there were other icons and hieroglyphs to represent numbers. One is depicted as a stake, ten as a pair of hands, a hundred as a folded palm leaf, a thousand as a lotus flower, a symbol of abundance, one hundred thousand as a frog, since there were a lot of frogs during the Nile flood. Later, special designations for individual sounds, that is, letters, appear. There was a time when letters were also used as numbers. This is what the ancient Greeks, Slavs and other peoples did. To distinguish letters from numbers, the Slavs placed above the letters,

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The names of numbers, expressing very abstract ideas, appeared, undoubtedly, later than the first crude symbols for indicating the number of objects in a certain collection. In ancient times, primitive numerical records were made in the form of notches on a stick, knots on a rope, laid out in a row of pebbles, and it was understood that there was a one-to-one correspondence between the elements of the set being counted and the symbols of the numerical record. But the names of numbers were not directly used to read such numerical records. Nowadays we recognize at first sight aggregates of two, three and four elements; Sets consisting of five, six or seven elements are somewhat more difficult to recognize at first glance. And beyond this border it is almost impossible to establish their number by eye, and analysis is needed either in the form of counting or in a certain structuring of elements. Counting the tags seems to have been the first technique used in such cases: the notches on the tags were arranged in certain groups, just as when counting ballot papers they are often grouped in packs of five or ten. Counting on fingers was very widespread, and it is quite possible that the names of some numbers originate precisely from this method of counting.

An important feature of counting is the connection of the names of numbers with a specific counting scheme. For example, the word “twenty-three” is not just a term meaning a well-defined (in terms of the number of elements) group of objects; it is a compound term meaning "two times ten and three." Here the role of the number ten as a collective unit or foundation is clearly visible; and indeed, many people count in tens, because, as Aristotle noted, we have ten fingers and toes. Bases five or twenty were used for the same reason. At very early stages in the development of human history, the numbers 2, 3 or 4 were taken as the base of the number system; sometimes bases 12 and 60 were used for some measurements or calculations.

Man began to count long before he learned to write, so no written documents have survived that testify to the words that were used to denote numbers in ancient times. Nomadic tribes are characterized by oral names of numbers; as for written ones, the need for them arose only with the transition to a sedentary lifestyle and the formation of agricultural communities. The need for a system for recording numbers also arose, and it was then that the foundation was laid for the development of mathematics.

Ancient Egypt.

Deciphering the number system created in Egypt during the First Dynasty (c. 2850 BC) was greatly facilitated by the fact that the hieroglyphic inscriptions of the ancient Egyptians were carefully carved into stone monuments. From these inscriptions we know that the ancient Egyptians used only the decimal number system. A unit was designated by one vertical line, and to indicate numbers less than 10, it was necessary to put the corresponding number of vertical strokes. ( Cm. pivot table number designations.) To make the numbers written in this way easy to recognize, the vertical strokes were sometimes combined into groups of three or four strokes. To designate the number 10, the basis of the system, the Egyptians, instead of ten vertical lines, introduced a new collective symbol, reminiscent in its outline of a horseshoe or a croquet bow. A set of ten horseshoe symbols, i.e. they replaced the number 100 with another new symbol that resembles a snare; ten snares, i.e. The number 1000 was designated by the Egyptians with a stylized image of a lotus. Continuing in the same vein, the Egyptians designated ten lotuses with a bent finger, ten bent fingers with a wavy line, and ten wavy lines with the figure of a surprised man. As a result, the ancient Egyptians could represent numbers up to a million. So, for example, with the help of collective symbols and repetitions of already entered symbols, the number 6789 in hieroglyphic notation could be written as

The most ancient mathematical records that have come down to us are carved in stone, but the most important evidence of ancient Egyptian mathematical activity is imprinted on a much more fragile and short-lived material - papyrus. Two such documents - the Rhind papyrus, or the Egyptian scribe Ahmes (c. 1650 BC) and the Moscow papyrus, or Golenishchev papyrus (c. 1850 BC) - serve as our main sources of information about ancient Egyptian arithmetic and geometry . In these papyri, the older hieroglyphic script gave way to a cursive hieratic script, and this change was accompanied by the use of a new principle of notation for numbers. A group of identical symbols was replaced by a mark or sign that was simpler in design, for example, nine was written as

Is it possible to imagine a world without numbers? Remember what you and I do every day: without numbers you can’t make a purchase, you can’t find out the time, you can’t dial a phone number. A spaceships, lasers and all other achievements! They would simply be impossible if it were not for the science of numbers.

Number is one of the basic concepts of mathematics, allowing one to express the results of counting or measurement.

People use numbers and counting so often that it is difficult to even imagine that they did not always exist, but were invented by man.

HOW FIGURES AND NUMBERS APPEARED.

1. Stone Age arithmetic.

At first, people learned to find out the number of objects or animals by making special notches on counting sticks and counting.

The idea of ​​counting came to people's minds before numbers appeared. People could tell each other that there were more animals in one herd than in another, but they could not count exactly how many.

Ancient people did not know how to count. And they had nothing to count, because the objects they used - tools - were very few: one ax, one spear... Gradually the number of things increased, the exchange of them became more and more complicated, and the need for counting arose.

No one knows how the number first appeared, how primitive man began to count. However, tens of thousands of years ago, primitive man collected the fruits of trees, went hunting, fished, and learned to make a stone ax and knife. And he had to count various objects that he encountered in everyday life. Gradually, the need arose to answer vital questions: how much fruit will everyone get so that there is enough for everyone; how much to spend today to keep in reserve; how many knives need to be made, etc. Thus, without noticing, the man began to count and calculate.

Several decades ago, archaeological scientists discovered a camp of ancient people. In it they found a wolf bone, on which 30 thousand years ago some ancient hunter made 55 notches. It is clear that while making these notches, he was counting on his fingers. The pattern on the bone consisted of 11 groups, with 5 notches in each. At the same time, he separated the first 5 groups from the rest with a long line. Later, in Siberia and others, decorations made in that distant era of the Stone Age (stone tools) were found, which also had dashes and dots, grouped in groups of 3, 5 or 7. Many millennia have passed since that time. But even now, Swiss peasants, sending milk to cheese factories, mark the number of flasks with the same notches. The word “tag” is still preserved in the Russian language. Now this is the name given to a plate with a number or inscription, which is tied to bags of goods, boxes and bales, etc. And two or three hundred years ago this word meant something completely different. This was the name given to pieces of wood on which the amount of debt and taxes was marked with notches. The notched tag was folded in half, after which one half remained with the debtor and the other with the tax collector. When counting

the halves were added together, and this made it possible to determine the amount of debt or tax without dispute and complex calculations.

2. Numbers start receive names.

They could imagine numbers such as one, two, three. They meant all other numbers with the concept “Many”. This is exactly what some tribes living in the jungles of South America still believe.

Until recently, there were tribes whose language had names for only two numbers: “one” and “two.” The natives of the islands located in the Torres Strait knew two numbers: “urapun” - one, “okosa” - two and could count to six. The islanders counted as follows: “Okoza-urapun” - three, “Okoza-Okoza” - four, “Okoza-Okoza-urapun” - five, “Okoza-Okoza-Okoza” - six. The natives spoke of numbers starting from 7 as “many”, “many”. Our ancestors probably also started with this. In ancient proverbs and sayings such as “Seven do not wait for one”, “Seven troubles - one answer”, “Seven nannies have a child without an eye”, “One with a fry, seven with a spoon” 7 also meant “many”.

In ancient times, when a person wanted to show how many animals he owned, he would put as many pebbles in a large bag as the number of animals he owned. The more animals, the more pebbles. This is where the word “calculator” comes from, “calculus” means “stone” in Latin.

At first they counted on their fingers. When the fingers on one hand ran out, they moved to the other, and if there weren’t enough on both hands, they moved to their feet. Therefore, if in those days someone boasted that he had “two arms and one leg of chickens,” this meant that he had fifteen chickens, and if it was called “a whole man,” that was two arms and two legs.

The Peruvian Incas kept track of animals and crops by tying knots on straps or cords of varying lengths and colors (Figure 1). These bundles were called kipu. Some rich people had accumulated several meters of this rope “counting book”, try it, remember in a year what 4 knots in a lace mean! Therefore, the one who tied the knots was called a rememberer.

The ancient Sumerians were the first to come up with the idea of ​​writing numbers. They only used two numbers. A vertical line meant one unit, and an angle of two lying lines meant ten. They made these lines in the form of wedges, because they wrote with a sharp stick on damp clay tablets, which were then dried and fired. This is what these planks looked like (Fig. 2).


Fig.2

After counting by notches, people invented special symbols called numbers. They began to be used to designate different quantities of any objects. Different civilizations created their own numbers.

For example, in ancient Egyptian numbering, which originated more than 5000 years ago, there were special signs (hieroglyphs) for writing the numbers 1, 10, 100, 1000, ...: (Fig. 3).


To depict, for example, the integer 23145, it is enough to write in a row two hieroglyphs representing ten thousand, then three hieroglyphs for a thousand, one for a hundred, four for ten and five hieroglyphs for one: (Fig. 4).

This one example is enough to learn how to write numbers the way the ancient Egyptians depicted them. This system is very simple and primitive.

Numbers were designated in a similar way on the island of Crete, located in the Mediterranean Sea. In Cretan writing, units were designated by a vertical line | , tens – horizontal - , hundreds – circle ◦ , thousands – sign ¤ .

Peoples (Babylonians, Assyrians, Sumerians) who lived in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates in the period from the 2nd millennium BC. before the beginning of our era, at first they denoted numbers using circles and semicircles of various sizes, but then they began to use only two cuneiform signs - a straight wedge q(1) and lying wedge t(10). These peoples used a sexagesimal number system, for example the number 23 was depicted like this: tt q q q The number 60 was again indicated by the sign q, for example, the number 92 was written like this: qt t tq q

At the beginning of our era, the Mayan Indians, who lived on the Yucatan Peninsula in Central America, used a different number system - base-20. They denoted 1 with a dot, and 5 with a horizontal line, for example, the entry ‗‗‗‗‗‗ meant 14. The Mayan number system also had a sign for zero. In its shape it resembled a half-closed eye.

In Ancient Greece, the numbers 5, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 were first denoted by the letters G, N, X, M, and the number 1 by a dash /. These signs made up the designations r r r G (35), etc. Late numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000, 20000 began to be denoted by letters of the Greek alphabet, to which three more obsolete letters had to be added. To distinguish numbers from letters, a dash was placed above the letters.

The ancient Indians invented a different sign for each number. This is what they looked like (Fig. 5)


Fig.5

However, India was cut off from other countries - thousands of kilometers of distance and high mountains lay in the way. The Arabs were the first "outsiders" to borrow numbers from the Indians and bring them to Europe. A little later, the Arabs simplified these icons, they began to look like this (Fig. 6)

They are similar to many of our numbers. The word “digit” was also inherited from the Arabs. The Arabs called zero, or “empty,” “sifra.” Since then, the word “digital” appeared. True, now all ten icons for recording the numbers that we use are called numbers: 0, 1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.


The gradual transformation of the original numbers into our modern numbers.

3. Roman numbers.

Of all the strange numberings, the Roman one is the only one that has survived to this day and is quite widely used. Roman numerals are still used to designate centuries, number chapters in books, etc.

To write numbers in Roman numeration, you need to remember the image of seven numbers.

I V X L C D M

1510501005001000

With their help, you can write any number no more than 4000. Some numbers are written by repeating Roman numerals:

III = 3 1 = 3.XX = 2 10 = 20.

In addition, the principle of addition and subtraction is used. If the smaller letter comes after the larger one, then their values ​​are added:

VI = 5 + 1 = 6,MC = 1000 + 100 = 1100

If a smaller number comes before a larger one, then the smaller one is subtracted from the larger one:

IV = 5 – 1 = 4, CM = 1000 – 100 = 900.

Exercise. What numbers represent the entry: ХХХVI, СХLV?

(ХХХVI = 3 10 + (5 + 1) = 36,

CXLV = 100 + (50 – 10) + 5 = 145.)

4.Numbers Russian people.

Our ancestors used alphabetical numbering, that is, numbers were represented by letters, above which a ~ sign called “titlo” was placed. To separate such letters - numbers from the text, dots were placed in front and behind.

This method of designating numbers is called tsifir. It was borrowed by the Slavs from the medieval Greeks - the Byzantines. Therefore, numbers were designated only by those letters for which there are correspondences in the Greek alphabet (Fig. 7).


To designate large numbers, the Slavs came up with their own original way:

Ten thousand is darkness

ten topics are legion,

ten legions - leord,

ten leords - raven,

ten ravens - deck.

This way of notating numbers was very inconvenient compared to the decimal system adopted in Europe. Therefore Peter I introduced the ten digits familiar to us in Russia, abolishing the alphabetic digits.

5. MOST NATURAL NUMBERS.

The series of numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9... is called natural. And these numbers themselves are natural. This series arose in ancient times, when people had a need to count objects. With the advent of the natural series, the first step towards the creation of mathematics was taken. Now everyone understands that the natural series of numbers is infinite. In ancient times people did not know this. At first they could count to three, then to ten, to forty, to a hundred, and then there was “darkness.” The natural series was very short. The great mechanician and mathematician of antiquity, Archimedes, managed to expand it. Archimedes wrote the famous work Psammitus, or Calculus of grains of sand." In it, he calculated the number of grains of sand that could fill a ball with a radius of 15,000,000,000,000 kilometers. Before Archimedes in Ancient Greece, the largest number was considered to be 10,000,000 myriads. The number 10,000 was called a myriad, from the Greek word “miros” - “innumerably large.” Archimedes began to count myriads of myriads and as a result developed his number system. The largest number in his system contains 80,000,000,000,000,000 zeros. This number is so large that if you print it in regular type on a typewriter, then this ribbon can encircle the Earth at the equator more than 2 million times. Even a rocket with the first escape velocity (8 km/s) would have to fly along this belt for more than 300 years.

This is the huge number the natural series extends to. But this number is not the last. Behind him are more numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers... ad infinitum. If the natural series of numbers seems boring and monotonous to you, take a closer look at it and you will find a lot of surprising and unexpected things.

For example, the ordinary number 37. Now multiply it by three, then by six, and so on... The wonders of the number 37 do not end there. Let's take any three-digit number that is divisible by 37. Let it be 185. And let's make a circular rearrangement in it - put the last digit in first place, without changing the order of the rest. We get 518. Let's make one more rearrangement. We get 851. Both of these numbers are also divisible by 37. Here's a curiosity for you!

6.Systems dead reckoning.

The first mathematicians counted on the fingers of one hand. Until five. And if there were more objects, then they said “five and one”, “five and two”... This is how the five-fold number system arose. Then the fingers became insufficient and a decimal number system appeared - on the fingers of both hands. Further more. The man had to “take off his shoes” and count on his fingers and toes. A 20 number system emerged.

But this, as you understand, was not enough. Then they came up with the sexagesimal system. They began to count in threes, according to the number of joints on each finger of the left hand without the thumb, that is, up to twelve. Each finger of the left hand meant 12. If one finger is 12, then five fingers are 60.

And finally, counting became so complicated that people had to invent numbers to indicate numbers, of which there were more and more. Different peoples invented their own numerals to record numbers.

Traces of the base-20 system survive in the French language. The number 80 in French sounds like “four times twenty” - guatre – vingt; 90 – as in “four times twenty and ten” - guatre – vingtdix; 91 – like “four times twenty and eleven” - guatre - vindt onze.

The sexagesimal system was invented by the ancient Babylonians. We inherited from them the division of the day into 24 or 12 double hours, the division of the hour into 60 minutes, and the minutes into seconds, and the division of the circle into 360 degrees.

And the most convenient was the decimal system, the same one that we still use today. The numerals we use to write numbers are called Arabic. There are only 10 of them. These numbers were invented in India, but they were called Arab numbers because they came to Europe from Arab countries. Over the years, the form of numbers has been improved and is now accepted throughout the world. This is how mathematics was gradually born. Man imperceptibly found himself in the world of numbers. And it turned out that a lot of amazing and even mysterious things await him in this world...

Once upon a time, numbers were used only for solving practical problems. And then they began to study them, to find out their properties. Concepts such as justice and friendship were also expressed with the help of numbers. Scientists have discovered how to write a number to find out what other numbers it is divisible by. They learned to find prime numbers and began to study their properties. Sometimes discoveries in the science of numbers were made by very young mathematicians. Mathematics is used both to encrypt and decrypt intelligence reports, diplomatic messages, and military orders. Some methods of encrypting and decrypting messages are based on the properties of numbers, in particular on special arithmetic, which. It is called remainder arithmetic.

LITERATURE

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Along with the usual logographic, compound, and alphabetic-compound signs, special written signs are used. These are numbers, algebraic, geometric, chemical, astronomical, meteorological, as well as dividing punctuation marks, diacritics, etc. Notes occupy a separate group.

Numbers

Numbers, unlike the letters of our writing, are ideographic symbols of modern written language.

Even now, science cannot answer the question of when and how the first letter developed, just as it cannot say exactly when and how the first numbers arose, as well as the first signs to denote quantitative units. People became acquainted with natural numbers at the dawn of civilization. Almost all digital systems were built on the decimal principle. Almost the only exception is the Mayan and Aztec systems with their five-twenty principle. The dominant position of the decimal system is explained by the fact that the most ancient tool for calculating a person had two hands with ten fingers. Nevertheless, the Babylonians had in use the sexagesimal principle of calculation associated with their weight units. The fact that it was human fingers that were the first instrument of calculation can be seen, for example, from the following fact: in the Hamitic language in Africa, the words hand and five and the pronunciation of the words ten and two hands have a common root. Almost all digital systems had independent signs only for the simplest numbers; the number of such signs ranged from 4-5 to 30. The rest of the numbers were obtained by addition (for example, in the Roman system, the number 6 is the addition of the signs “five” and “one” (VI)). Large numbers were sometimes obtained by the principle of multiplication (for example, in the Greek Ionic system, the sign “three” was placed above the sign “ten thousand”, and this should have meant “thirty thousand”; less often the principle of subtraction was used (for example, Roman numerals IV, IX). A significant but late achievement in the history of numbers was the use of the “positional principle”, according to which the numerical value of digital signs depends not only on their shape, but also on their location (for example, 52, 25). what's the word number comes from Arabic emptiness, and at first this word meant zero. The sign 0 indicated the absence of a number.

The development of numbers is related to the general development of writing. At the early pictographic stage of writing, numbers did not yet exist. In case of need to indicate the number of things, these things and the image were drawn the required number of times. Later, a more complex method arose: they depicted the object in question, and placed dots or lines next to it, the number of which indicated the desired number. This method was used at the beginning of the 19th century on Russian coins. The dots placed next to the number determined the value of the coin. This principle was convenient for transmitting small numbers used at an early stage of the development of society; dots and dashes served as the prototype for the simplest digital signs - units.

We don’t know exactly how people counted and how they called numbers before the invention of writing. At the dawn of civilization, people made do with three numbers: “one”, “two”, “many”. It was probably more than a millennium before this calculation advanced further. In any case, by the time writing was invented, people were already able to count quite well.

As we noted, the Aztecs and Mayans used the five-twenty number system. Their special symbols for writing units were a dot, a five-dash, and a twenty-flag. The remaining numbers were obtained by repetition, adding the main characters, for example:

According to Yu.V. Knorozov, the Mayans also used a positional method of writing numbers (1). Using their number system, the Mayans achieved a high degree of mathematical and astronomical knowledge.

It is known that the cuneiform system of writing numbers was born almost 4000 years ago. This system was very common in the Middle East. Even in modern practice, the influence of the Babylonian culture of distant times is reflected. When at the end of the 3rd century BC. There was a merger of the two peoples of Sumerians and Akkadians (the northern part of Babylon at the beginning of the Hellenistic period of history was called Akkad), the unit of weight among the Sumerians was mina (approximately 0.5 kg), the monetary unit was mina of silver. Among the Akkadians, the basic unit, the shekel, was approximately sixty times smaller. After the merger of the mentioned peoples, both systems of units of measurement remained in use. Minas and shekels were used then as we now use kilograms and grams. In monetary use, minas and shekels played the role of our rubles and koppeks, but with the difference that the large unit of measurement was equal not to 100, but to 60 small units. Later, an even larger unit of measurement “talent” appeared here; one talent was equal to sixty mina. This system has been preserved to this day to measure angles and time. After all, a sixth of a circle is divided into 60 degrees, a degree into 60 minutes, a minute into 60 seconds. Minute means in Latin small.

As a test material for wedge-shaped writing, numbers were written with sticks, pressing them into soft clay. The peoples of Western Asia who used cuneiform writing (Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Elamites) designated different numbers in the sexagesimal system using three basic meanings. The first sign was a wedge wrapped with a sharp ulg downwards, the second was a sign made up of two wedges placed diagonally and connected by their bases, and the third was a horizontally laid wedge with its tip turned to the right.

To write the number 1, the first sign was used, that is, a wedge placed vertically with the tip downwards; two such wedges were used to indicate the number 2, and so on. To write the number ten (10), the second sign was used, for the number 100, a combination of the first and third signs, that is, a vertically placed wedge and a horizontal one next to it (). When they wanted to write with these signs, for example, 200 or 300, they wrote as many vertically placed wedges as there were in the hundreds, and next to them one horizontally laid wedge, which played the role of a multiplier (multiplier).

A thousand was designated as follows: having written the number ten, a hundred sign was added to its right, and the number ten thousand was designated as follows: having written the number 10, a thousand was added to it to the right.

When a horizontally laid one was added to the vertical wedge on the left, it meant (60).

The Western Asian numeral system, like the cuneiform system, was very complex at that time; it turned out to be the most progressive among the ancient systems; in it, for the first time, the positional principle was used, which made it possible to write down very large numbers, and a special sign (the prototype of zero) was introduced to indicate that there is no digit digit.

For three thousand years in the eastern Mediterranean basin, the Phoenicians (Phoenicians (Ukr)), Cypriots and residents of Crete had a similar spelling of numbers: they had three main features: a vertical line, which served as a unit, a horizontal line, which indicated the number ten , circle - one hundred. Combinations of these signs could represent different numbers:

On the island of Cyprus, which lies on the same parallel as the island of Crete, 500 kilometers east of it, the number system was almost the same as on the island of Crete, but for ten there was a sign similar to the capital (versal) Latin L or small semicircle

Chinese numbers)

The oldest Chinese numbers, as well as the oldest Chinese writing, arose during the reign of the legendary king Fu Xi, who lived in the 3rd millennium BC; Chinese national tradition associates the beginning of the Chinese writing with him. He seems to have invented eight magical trigrams that played a role in divination and were called "pakwa", which means "eight divination trigrams."

The Chinese numerals of that time are reminiscent of the ancient Chinese script "Pakwa".

The Chinese use three number systems, which are based on the number ten (10), and the signs (numbers) are built on the system of addition and multiplication. The main signs are:

Numbers, like text, are written in a vertical direction. When the column at the top contains units, that is, numbers from 1 to 10 (9 is excluded), then these units play the role of a multiplier, for example:

In commercial documents, the Chinese write numbers horizontally, with the highest digits on the left. They look like this:

The third Chinese number system is graphically constructed on the basis of vertical lines and a horizontal line - the basis; the numbers, as in the two previous systems, are positioned positionally.

Egyptian numeral system

The ancient Egyptians had a fairly highly developed number system. On one inscription, which falls on 3800. BC, we find the number one million four hundred twenty-two thousand (1,422,000). The British Museum preserves a papyrus called Rindus - “The Way of Knowing the Mysteries...”. From it we learn that the Egyptians then did complex mathematical operations, knew fractions, the number , that is, 3.14, and so on.

The Egyptian number system was built on strict adherence to the decimal principle. To designate units, horizontal, less often vertical, lines were used, for ten - an arc, for hundreds - a bent rope, for a thousand - a lotus stem, for ten thousand - a bent finger, for hundreds of thousands - a tadpole (because tadpoles were hatched in large numbers). For a million there was a sign in the form of a man who raised his hands up in surprise in front of such a large number. In another interpretation, this is a deity who supports the sky.

The remaining numbers were obtained by the principle of adding the mentioned main numbers placed side by side; Thus, for the number twenty-five (25) they write two bows (bows) and five dashes; to designate 1852 they wrote one thousand sign, eight hundreds sign, five ten sign and two unit sign.

Digital signs began to be used in Egypt back in the predynastic period, during the transition from pictography to logography. Thus, in Narmer’s record on a slate table (end of the 4th millennium BC) there are such papyrus stems that are interpreted by Egyptologists as the designation of a thousand. Starting from the “Middle Kingdom,” the designation of large numbers was based not on the principle of addition, but on the principle of multiplication. As Egyptian writing developed, especially when the Egyptians began to write on papyrus, the numbers in hieratic and demonic writing were formed as follows:

The writing of numbers in the Egyptian script developed in the same way as text writing. Accordingly, we distinguish between hieroglyphic, hieratic and demonic numbers.

European number systems, Greek, Hebrew, Slavic, Etruscan, Roman and others
As we know, ancient numbers, which were in use in Europe, are signs of the Greek ancient system, in which letters served digital code, the so-called herodian, which got its name from Herodian of Alexandria (II century BC). But Herodian was not the author of this system. These figures probably come from the 4th century. BC, back in the Periclosian time, approximately 500. BC. they were in wide use. But since the time of Plutarch (approximately 100 BC) they have fallen out of use.

The Herodian system did not last long, and the Greeks later used individual letters of the alphabet to denote numbers up to 24:

Later, the Greeks introduced special notations for units, separate for tens and hundreds, namely:

The method of writing numbers using individual letters of the alphabet has long been used in Hebrew writing. Of the 22 letters of the alphabet, the first nine were used to write units, the next nine denoted tens, and the last four were used to write hundreds (up to 400). When it was necessary to write more hundreds, by combining the signs of the previous four hundreds, four more hundreds were obtained, and then auxiliary signs were introduced to indicate numbers:

Thousands of Jews wrote by placing two dots with the corresponding hundreds sign, which meant that the number (hundreds) was multiplied by ten.

This number system was in use by the ancient Syrians, and for some time it was used by the Arabs, until it was supplanted by numbers that were brought in from India.

Slavic number systems

Along with the letter that the ancient Slavs borrowed from the Greeks and which they themselves developed (glagolic), they also adopted from the Greeks the habit of writing numbers using individual letters of their alphabet. In the Glagolitic alphabet the following letters were used to denote numbers:

In the old Church Slavonic Cyrillic alphabet, numbers were also designated by letters:

The Slavs, especially the Orthodox, used this code for writing numbers for quite a long time, namely until the beginning of the 19th century, until it was finally replaced by Arabic ones. Kulundzic informs, for example, that on many old Serbian church images from before the 19th century, you can read Old Slavonic numbers and letters, which serve to date historical landmarks (memoirs). Lubmir Stojanovic, in his work “Old Serbian Records and Inscriptions,” cites an inscription on a gravestone in the altar of the Decani Monastery, dated 1867.

In our Slavic-Cyrillic number system, as a rule, only letters borrowed from the Greek letter received a digital value. 27 characters - lowercase letters, above which there is also a special sign - titlo (), which is also used in ordinary Slavic writing to abbreviate words:

The numbers eleven, twelve were written respectively like this: twenty-one, twenty-two - and so on. The title was placed only above one of the numbers. The order of digits when writing a number was the same as in the oral name of this number. We say, for example, “fifteen” (in Slavic five by ten), that is, calling first one and then ten. .

The Slavs wrote like this: that is, first “five”, and then ten.

On the contrary, in the number “twenty-three” we first name tens, then ones. According to the condition of this number, it was written like this.

Large numbers were easily written using Cyrillic characters. The number 29,946 was defined, for example, like this: the sign meant thousands. By repeating it, very large numbers could be written down. Here's how, for example, the number 20,178,073 was written:

The form of Roman numerals comes from counting on fingers and from the verbal naming of numbers. The numbers are constructed according to the first principle: 1 (one finger), V (palm with thumb extended), X (crossed arms); according to a different principle, the numbers C (the first letter of the word centum - one hundred) and M (the first letter of the word mille - thousand); there is not enough information about the origin of the numbers L and D. In ancient Roman monuments (BC), the number D (500) was not found, and Western Greek letters were sometimes used for the numbers 50, 100, 1000.
Using the seven mentioned above Latin letters we can write any number.

Roman numerals were widely used in the Middle Ages, before the appearance of so-called Arabic numerals in Europe. Now Roman numerals are used to indicate historical dates, on watch dials, in cases of complex numbering, when the Arabic numeral system alone is not enough (for example, when a book is divided into sections, which in turn are divided into subsections).

Arabic counting system

But more perfect digital system, which was called Arabic, was created in India around the 5th century. The Arabs brought it to Europe. The most important and new thing in the Indian system was the consistent use of the positional principle of writing numbers and the zero sign, similar to that used in the Mayan and Babylonian number systems. As for the positional notation of numbers, you need to pay attention to the fact that although it was used by the Babylonians in the Roman and other systems, it was not consistent.

Using nine characters - Arabic numerals (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) and zero (0) we can write any number. The first digits of this type appear in the 3rd century. BC. in the record of the Indian king Ashoka (273-232 BC), but in this record the numbers do not stick to certain places, there is no zero in everyday life. A perfect system of numbers was created in India only in the 5th century. based on the consistent use of principles proven throughout the history of the development of numbers - decimal, positional and addition principles, as well as on the basis of the use of the zero sign (approximately 500 AD)

It is believed that the Arabs became acquainted with Indian numerals when they came to Baghdad in 772/773 AD. An embassy arrived, bringing with them some astronomical books written in the Sanskrit language and script. Thanks to these books, the Arabs learned about Indian numbers, the decimal system and named them themselves first hindyan, arquam, which in translation means Indian numerals. The Arab Khuwarizmi wrote about this in his famous work, the first Arabic book on numbers "Chisab hindu".

In 1130 the mentioned work was translated into English language Englishman Abelard from Baza entitled "Liber Algoritmi de numero Indorum". So the Europeans found out new system calculus, which according to Arabic work was called algoritmus or algorismus. In Spain, the first cases of using Arabic numerals occurred in the 10th century, in other European countries in the 12th century.

Almost eighty years after Abelard’s translation, the book of the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci from Pisa “Liber abaci” (“Book of Accounts” 1208) appeared, and in 1494. Luca Pacioli's book "Summa Aritmetica" ("The Essence of Arithmetic") appeared. Since the 15th century, Arabic numerals have already become more widespread in Europe, moving ahead of Roman numerals.

In Rus', Arabic numerals appeared in the 14th-15th centuries, spread in the 17th century, and in the 18th century, after the introduction of the civil alphabet in Russia, they finally replaced Slavic-Cyrillic numerals in the public press.

The primitive forms of Arabic numerals were somewhat different (except for the signs 1,6,7,8,9,0) than their forms in Europe, where they finally developed to modern forms already at the end of the Middle Ages.

Nowadays, in a form close to the primitive style, Arabic numerals are common in those countries that use the Arabic writing system (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.).

Decimal fractions, introduced in Europe by the Dutch scientist S. Stevin, were a significant improvement in the Arabic numeral system. After this, Arabic numerals became suitable for decimal positional notation of any small and large numbers.

Printing fonts for transmitting numbers in the assortment of domestic printing houses

In the domestic font economy of printing houses, the set of characters of the Cyrillic base includes, with the exception of the tabular, Bannikov Bachenas and Lazursky typefaces, only majuscule numbers, the height of which is equal to the height of the capital letters. In Latin typefaces, the set sometimes includes numbers in two styles: medial and regular

The presence of medial numerals in the assortment of printed fonts allows the compiler to adhere to stylistic unity when combining digital materials with medial fonts in the text.

Dividing marks

Dividing marks serve to divide speech syntactically - to indicate the boundaries between a sentence, simple and complex, and to highlight individual members or elements of sentences (for example, a period, a comma). In addition, there are signs to indicate intonation and meaningful shades (for example, question marks, exclamation marks, quotation marks).

In modern Ukrainian, Russian and Latin writing, 10 dividing marks are used, of which 6 are used to separate speech and separate its elements (period, comma, semicolon, two dots, dash, quotation marks) and 4 symbols are used to separate speech and emphasize emotional and semantic meaning. its characteristics (question mark, exclamation mark, quotation marks and periods). In addition to the listed characters, another special character is used - a hyphen (-) to connect words. Regarding the use of question marks and exclamation mark, in Spanish writing these signs are placed not only as usual, that is, at the end of the sentence, but also at the beginning inverted, so that the reader knows in advance with what intonation the previous sentence should be read. In poems, if necessary, instead of headings, a designation of three asterisks is used, and if the asterisks are placed in reverse, then they serve instead of the author’s signature.

Diacritics and other marks

Diacritic marks include above-letter, sub-letter, and also signs placed in the middle of a letter. The purpose of these signs is not to independently determine the sound, but only to change, clarify (distinguish) the sound meaning of the main letters of the alphabet. For example:

Among the special printed signs that are widely used in foreign practice, there is a sign (English ampersand; German Et-Zeichen; French et-commercial, which abbreviated as And). Such a sign, for example, is always placed to connect the surnames of the owners of the merged company. The & sign comes from the combination of the words and per se and. To denote the English currency, pounds sterling, the sign is used. The sign is used to indicate the US currency - dollars. The abbreviation DM is used to denote German marks.

We noted above that special written signs also include: algebraic, geometric, chemical, astronomical, meteorological and others. Such signs are used in the works of certain branches of science and technology, where they are described.

(1) See: Knorozov Yu.V. Writing of the Mayan Indians. M.-L., 1963.

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Lesson plans for mathematics with UUD in 2nd grade for September

Publication date: 21.08.2016

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Mathematics 3.09.

Topic: Drawing numbers.

Objectives: Familiarity with the textbook. Repetition: number names, reading and writing; even and odd numbers; designation of numbers by digits; composition of single digit numbers.

1.Organizational moment

Checking readiness for the lesson.

Come on, check it out, my friend.

Are you ready to start the lesson?

Pen, book and notebook?

Is everyone sitting correctly?

Is everyone watching carefully?

2.Oral counting

We count in chorus from 1 to 10, and vice versa.

3.Updating lesson objectives

What's on your desk??? (textbook and notebook)

What do you think we will do with them?

Let's look at: the cover, look at the title, the designations on page 2, the drawing and listen to the author's message to you.

We also consider the notebook.

How will you handle these items?

4. Defining goals and communicating the topic of the lesson.

Let's remember what you know about numbers? What about numbers??? (Numbers are signs that represent numbers.) Different peoples came up with different signs to represent numbers p.4.

Signs can be very different. Since ancient times, people have invented them to convey important information, their thoughts, feelings to children, friends, and enemies. They used different methods for this. The most ancient writings were, as you know, cave paintings. They were made by primitive people in order to leave a memory of military or hunting exploits. Consider what an unusual letter the Persian king Darius wrote in ancient times. Page 28

In mathematics, they often use not only numbers, but also pictures to convey information. We will learn to understand not only the language of numbers, but also the language of pictures. Page 4 No. 1.

Let's review the composition of single-digit numbers. Page 4№1

Physical exercise.

One, two - there is a rocket,

Three, four - plane,

One, two - clap your hands,

And then on every account.

Let's repeat even and odd numbers. Page 5 No. 3, 4.

In task No. 4, remember the rule about rearranging terms.

In task No. 5, guess which numbers are written using addition and which numbers are written using subtraction. You can check your findings by looking at page 29.

Open all notebooks on page 3, let's complete the tasks.

Look at page 5 in the textbook, task No. 6, answer the questions.

Eight

Nine (picture 9 shaft)

Open page 126 and read the information.

Workbook page 4 No. 5 homework.

6. Lesson summary

So, let's summarize the lesson.

What goals did we set at the beginning of the lesson?

What should have been repeated?

Have we achieved our goals?

Now let’s stand up and everyone will say what they learned in the lesson, what new things did they learn, what did they remember?

This means our lesson was not in vain. This concludes the lesson.

Development of cognitive interests

brain teaser

Puud synthesis as the composition of a whole from parts;

LUUD formation of installation on healthy image life;

Kuud The ability to express one's thoughts fully and accurately;

Ruud Goal setting as setting an educational task based on the correlation of what is already known and learned by the student and what is still unknown

ability to listen and engage in dialogue;

Ruud assessment - the student’s identification and awareness of what has already been learned and what remains to be learned, awareness of the quality and level of assimilation;

The ability to express one’s thoughts fully and accurately;

Mathematics 4.09.

Topic: Calculating within tens.

Objectives: Repetition: calculation techniques using an addition table, using a number line and a number series, using rearrangement of numbers in a sum, based on knowledge of the composition of single-digit numbers.

Equipment: textbook, notebook, colored pencils. Lesson progress

1.Organizational moment

Checking readiness for the lesson.

Come on, check it out, my friend.

Are you ready to start the lesson?

Is everything in place? Is everything all right?

Pen, book and notebook?

Is everyone sitting correctly?

Is everyone watching carefully?

2.Oral counting

Solving examples within 10.

What is the topic of our lesson? (We calculate within tens).

5.Learning new material and consolidating it.

For a long time, people added and subtracted up to ten on their fingers; we also have other assistants for calculations: an addition table (p. 38), a number ray and a series of numbers.

Let's complete task No. 1 in the textbook in notebook No. 1 independently, and then check it.

Task No. 2, 3.6 orally.

Physical exercise.

One, two - there is a rocket,

Three, four - plane,

One, two - clap your hands,

And then on every account.

1,2,3,4 - arms higher, shoulders wider,

1,2,3,4 - and they were on the spot.

In task No. 4 we will write several options for the sum of odd numbers.

Let's complete task No. 7.

Textbook page 7 No. 6 in the notebook homework.

6. Lesson summary

So, let's summarize the lesson.

What should have been repeated?

Have we achieved our goals?

You did all the tasks well, learned a lot in class and learned a lot.

RUUD volitional self-regulation as the ability to mobilize strength and energy;

WPUD sign-symbolic - modeling

Ruud control in the form of comparison of a method of action and its result with a given standard in order to detect deviations and differences from the standard;

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem;

Formation of value guidelines and meanings of educational activities based on

brain teaser

analysis of objects to identify features

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem.

Mathematics 5.09.

Topic: Gathering groups.

Objectives: Repetition: names of round numbers, reading, writing. Getting to know the numbers one hundred and one thousand, writing them in numbers.

Equipment: textbook, notebook, colored pencils. Lesson progress

1.Organizational moment

Checking readiness for the lesson.

2.Oral counting

3. Defining goals and communicating the topic of the lesson.

What is the topic of our lesson? (Gathering groups).

Why are we doing this? (repeat)

5.Learning new material and consolidating it.

One object can be represented by one sign. Come up with and draw your own sign for one item.

Groups of objects can be represented by a group of signs.

To avoid drawing a lot of signs, people came up with signs for groups of objects and gave them names. Ten is ten. Etc.

Let's complete task No. 3, 7 in the textbook orally.

Physical exercise.

One, two - there is a rocket,

Three, four - plane,

One, two - clap your hands,

And then on every account.

1,2,3,4 - arms higher, shoulders wider,

1,2,3,4 - and they were on the spot.

In task No. 4 we will depict the numbers 20, 30 using Roman numerals.

Let's complete task No. 6 Write in numbers: two hundred, four hundred, eight hundred. Come up with and draw your own sign to represent a hundred. Using this sign, depict three hundred, five hundred.

Textbook page 9 No. 5 in the notebook homework.

6. Lesson summary

So, let's summarize the lesson.

What should have been repeated?

Have we achieved our goals?

You did all the tasks well, learned a lot in class and learned a lot.

RUUD volitional self-regulation as the ability to mobilize strength and energy;

WPUD sign-symbolic - modeling

Ruud control in the form of comparison of a method of action and its result with a given standard in order to detect deviations and differences from the standard;

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem;

Formation of value guidelines and meanings of educational activities based on

Development of cognitive interests

brain teaser

analysis of objects to identify features

Puud synthesis as the composition of a whole from parts.

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem.

Mathematics 7.09.

Topic: Counting by tens.

Objectives: Review: round numbers. Introducing writing in numbers of several hundred.

Equipment: textbook, notebook, colored pencils. Lesson progress

1.Organizational moment

Checking readiness for the lesson.

2.Oral counting

Solving examples within 10 for a while.

Writing and reading round numbers.

3. Defining goals and communicating the topic of the lesson.

What is the topic of our lesson? (Collecting dozens).

Why are we doing this? (repeat)

5.Learning new material and consolidating it.

Let's complete task No. 1. How many tens of kilometers did the red car travel from the start?

What is the distance in tens of kilometers between the red and green cars?

Let's complete task 32 in your notebook.

Task No. 3 on your own.

We solve problem No. 4 in a notebook.

Physical exercise.

One, two - there is a rocket,

Three, four - plane,

One, two - clap your hands,

And then on every account.

1,2,3,4 - arms higher, shoulders wider,

1,2,3,4 - and they were on the spot.

To designate tens, the ancient Romans used numbers such as in No. 5.

Guess which numbers are written in Roman numerals?

Task No. 6 homework.

6. Lesson summary

So, let's summarize the lesson.

What should have been repeated?

Have we achieved our goals?

You did all the tasks well, learned a lot in class and learned a lot.

RUUD volitional self-regulation as the ability to mobilize strength and energy;

WPUD sign-symbolic - modeling

Ruud control in the form of comparison of a method of action and its result with a given standard in order to detect deviations and differences from the standard;

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem;

Formation of value guidelines and meanings of educational activities based on

Development of cognitive interests

brain teaser

analysis of objects to identify features

Puud synthesis as the composition of a whole from parts.

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem.

Mathematics 10.09.

Topic: Writing down numbers.

Objectives: Review: single and double digit numbers; decimal composition of two-digit numbers; designation of tens and units by numbers. Formation of primary ideas about the bit composition of numbers.

Equipment: textbook, notebook, colored pencils. Lesson progress

1.Organizational moment

Checking readiness for the lesson.

2.Oral counting

Solving examples within 10 for a while.

3. Defining goals and communicating the topic of the lesson.

Kolya collects large beautiful apples from the apple tree and puts them in boxes of 10 pieces. That's how much he collected. How can you tell about the harvest?

What is the topic of our lesson? (Write down the numbers).

Why are we doing this? (repeat)

Let's complete task No. 1. Give examples of single and double digit numbers. Write them down.

Task No. 2. Write down the result of the addition.

Write it as the sum of tens and ones: 43, 34, 71, 17.

Let's solve problems.

Physical exercise.

One, two - there is a rocket,

Three, four - plane,

One, two - clap your hands,

And then on every account.

1,2,3,4 - arms higher, shoulders wider,

1,2,3,4 - and they were on the spot.

We will complete task No. 5 orally.

Let's write it in terady:

A) the smallest two-digit number

B) the largest two-digit number, etc.

We will complete task No. 7 on our own.

Task No. 3 homework.

5. Lesson summary

So, let's summarize the lesson.

What should have been repeated?

Have we achieved our goals?

You did all the tasks well, learned a lot in class and learned a lot.

RUUD volitional self-regulation as the ability to mobilize strength and energy;

WPUD sign-symbolic - modeling

Ruud control in the form of comparison of a method of action and its result with a given standard in order to detect deviations and differences from the standard;

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem;

Formation of value guidelines and meanings of educational activities based on

Development of cognitive interests

brain teaser

analysis of objects to identify features

Puud synthesis as the composition of a whole from parts.

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem.

Mathematics 11.09.

Topic: Comparing numbers.

Objectives: Review: ways to compare numbers. Introduction to the concept of “true inequality”.

Equipment: textbook, notebook, colored pencils. Lesson progress

1.Organizational moment

Checking readiness for the lesson.

2.Oral counting

Solving examples within 10 for a while.

Adding and subtracting round numbers within 100.

3. Defining goals and communicating the topic of the lesson.

Numbers can be placed on a number line. Name the numbers that are located: show where the number 45 is located.

What is the topic of our lesson? (Compare numbers).

Why are we doing this? (repeat)

4.Learning new material and consolidating it.

Open your notebook, write down the number and great job.

Let's complete task No. 2. Give examples of single and double digit numbers. Write them down.

Task No. 3. Write down the result of the addition.

Write down the number of characters in each picture using numbers. Write down the inequalities between numbers.

Let's solve problems.

Physical exercise.

One, two - there is a rocket,

Three, four - plane,

One, two - clap your hands,

And then on every account.

1,2,3,4 - arms higher, shoulders wider,

1,2,3,4 - and they were on the spot.

We will complete task No. 6, 7, 9 orally.

Task No. 4, No. 5 (c) homework.

5. Lesson summary

So, let's summarize the lesson.

What should have been repeated?

Have we achieved our goals?

You did all the tasks well, learned a lot in class and learned a lot.

RUUD volitional self-regulation as the ability to mobilize strength and energy;

WPUD sign-symbolic - modeling

Ruud control in the form of comparison of a method of action and its result with a given standard in order to detect deviations and differences from the standard;

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem;

Formation of value guidelines and meanings of educational activities based on

Development of cognitive interests

brain teaser

analysis of objects to identify features

Puud synthesis as the composition of a whole from parts.

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem.

Mathematics 17.09.

Topic: Adding and subtracting single digit numbers.

Goals: Review: addition and subtraction of two-digit and single-digit numbers without passing through ten.

Equipment: textbook, notebook, colored pencils. Lesson progress

1.Organizational moment

Checking readiness for the lesson.

2.Oral counting

Solving examples within 10 for a while.

Adding and subtracting round numbers within 100.

3. Defining goals and communicating the topic of the lesson.

Help Jack who built the house count the bags?

What is the topic of our lesson? (Add and subtract single digit numbers).

Why are we doing this? (repeat)

4.Learning new material and consolidating it.

Open your notebook, write down the number and great job.

Let's complete task No. 1. Let's write down examples and remember that units add up to..., and tens add up to...

Task No. 2. Let's solve the examples and write them down.

Let's solve problem #4 and write it down.

Physical exercise.

One, two - there is a rocket,

Three, four - plane,

One, two - clap your hands,

And then on every account.

1,2,3,4 - arms higher, shoulders wider,

1,2,3,4 - and they were on the spot.

We will complete task No. 6 orally.

- No. 7, 8 in the notebook.

Assignment No. 3, No. 4 homework.

5. Lesson summary

So, let's summarize the lesson.

What should have been repeated?

Have we achieved our goals?

You did all the tasks well, learned a lot in class and learned a lot.

RUUD volitional self-regulation as the ability to mobilize strength and energy;

WPUD sign-symbolic - modeling

Ruud control in the form of comparison of a method of action and its result with a given standard in order to detect deviations and differences from the standard;

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem;

Formation of value guidelines and meanings of educational activities based on

Development of cognitive interests

brain teaser

analysis of objects to identify features

Puud synthesis as the composition of a whole from parts.

Luud formation of adequate positive conscious self-esteem.

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