Sunday 20 September 2015

Vocabulary. Numbers


Natural numbers are the numbers used to count or order. There are two types, cardinal and ordinal.
  • If we use them for counting: CARDINAL
  • If we use them for ordering: ORDINAL
The symbols we use to represent numbers are called digits: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9. Our numeral system is decimal and positional.
Decimal: because we group the digits in tens, and
Positional: because the digits have a different value according to its position.