Stone Age Counting
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level 
These drawings were found in La Pileta cave in Spain and could be up to $25 000$ years old.
What do you think these drawings represent?
Could they be about counting things?
What might 'stone-age' people count?
Might they be the earliest known number patterns?
You could try and make up your own way of recording counting.
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