The ancient Greeks thought of seven as a shape with seven sides and seven corners. Such a shape is called a heptagon, which means "seven corners." Seven seemed like a special, magical number to...
Six
> Long ago, the Greeks discovered something very odd about six. It can > be divided evenly by three numbers that are less than itself---one, > two, and three. And, these three numbers add up to six!...
Five
Think of the number five as five dots that you can arrange in a flat shape that has five sides and five corners, or angles. A shape of this kind is called a pentagon, a name that means "five...
Four
If you think of four as four dots, you can show the dots as a square. And that's how the ancient Greeks thought of four---as a shape with four sides and four corners. Four is an even number. It can...
Three
If you think of three as three dots, you can show it as a triangle. A triangle is a shape with three sides and three angles, or corners. That's how the ancient Greeks thought of three. The Greeks...
Two
Two is the first even number---a number that can be broken apart and made into two smaller numbers that are exactly the same. Break two apart and you get a one and a one. Long ago, both the Chinese...
One
One is a thing all by itself. But when you put ones together, you get other numbers. You can make every number using ones. You can't do that with any other number. The ancient Greeks were fond of...
Zero
Zero stands for nothing. If you have zero ice cream cones, then you have none at all. It may seem very silly to have a numeral for something that isn't there, but the numeral 0 is really very...
Take a number
Do you know the color of number five? Do you know the shape of a four? Do you know which number is lucky? We can tell you all that and more! For there's a lore and a magic in numbers, Or so...
Guess what you’ve been doing!
Were you able to guide Ribidip through the maze to the safety of the pond? Did you figure out how to get the wolf, the goat, and the cabbages across the river? Were you able to put the five playing...
