The Earliest Numbers

Series: Understanding Numbers Series

Genre: Television

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Natl Educational TV Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows man's first efforts to count with symbols, how Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics have contributed to our present number system, traces our present use of minutes and seconds, and explains certain physical methods of writing and reckoning with numbers. , Shows man's first effort to count with symbols, and demonstrates how Egyptian and Babylonian mathematic have contributed to our present number system. Stresses this contribution in terms of the essential elements of a modern numeration system: base, place, symbols, zero, decimal point. Through models, demonstrates and explains certain physical methods of writing and reckoning with numbers. Devices shown are the English tally stick, quipa, abacus, and counting board. From these, such words and ideas are identified as "sock, bank, carry", and "borrow". (University of Michigan Television) Kinescope.

Complete Record: Shows man's first efforts to count with symbols, how Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics have contributed to our present number system, traces our present use of minutes and seconds, and explains certain physical methods of writing and reckoning with numbers. , Shows man's first effort to count with symbols, and demonstrates how Egyptian and Babylonian mathematic have contributed to our present number system. Stresses this contribution in terms of the essential elements of a modern numeration system: base, place, symbols, zero, decimal point. Through models, demonstrates and explains certain physical methods of writing and reckoning with numbers. Devices shown are the English tally stick, quipa, abacus, and counting board. From these, such words and ideas are identified as "sock, bank, carry", and "borrow". (University of Michigan Television) Kinescope.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.