In today’s lesson we set up our math journals and explored the base ten system. Our guiding question concept: our system has only ten digits (0 to 9), but can represent an infinite amount of numbers. How does that work? Place value is the secret sauce. We compared our system to other number systems whichContinue reading “Where did our number system come from … and why do we have “base ten”?”
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So, what are numbers anyway? 😊
Welcome to 5th Grade math! We are starting today with a review of some of the vocabulary and concepts we use in discussing our number system.
Mr. J’s Math Class 