Ancient Egyption numbers

Ancient Egyptian numbers

Learning Intention:  to understand place value by using Ancient Egyptian numbers.

Here are all of the glyphs you need to make numbers in Ancient Egyptian

Image sourced from www.discoveringegypt.com

Challenge 1:

Code these glyphs into easy to type keyboard keys. For example:

Glyph	Number	Code
	1	I (capital i)
	10	T
	100	H
	1,000	TT
	10,000	TT
	100,000	Y
	1,000,000

Challenge 2:

Make a quiz for using Ancient Egyptian numbers. You need:

• 3 coding questions; quiz takers have to code Ancient Egyptian numbers into your coded numbers and modern English numbers.
• 3 addition questions; write questions in your code.
• 3 subtraction questions; write questions in your code.

Take someone else’s quiz.