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Broad Topics > Numbers and the Number System > Number bases

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A Story about Absolutely Nothing

Stage: 2, 3, 4 and 5

This article for the young and old talks about the origins of our number system and the important role zero has to play in it.

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Nim-like Games

Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

A collection of games on the NIM theme

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Alien Counting

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Investigate the different ways these aliens count in this challenge. You could start by thinking about how each of them would write our number 7.

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Fingers and Hands

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

How would you count the number of fingers in these pictures?

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It Must Be 2000

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Here are many ideas for you to investigate - all linked with the number 2000.

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Sometimes We Lose Things

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Well now, what would happen if we lost all the nines in our number system? Have a go at writing the numbers out in this way and have a look at the multiplications table.


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