Virtual Classroom: Ancient Egyptian Numbers

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Key Stages: Key Stage 2

Topics: Ancient Egyptian Society, Royalty, Daily Life, The Pharaoh, Hieroglyphs, Scribes, Numbers

Key Skills: Developing Thinking, Developing Communication, Personal and Social Education, Developing Number, Problem Solving

Overview:

In this activity, we will be learning how to write numbers using ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. We will learn how to use the ancient Egyptian’s base-10 number system and put it into practice with some examples.

Learning Objectives: 

• Write ancient Egyptian numbers,
• Translate our number system into hieroglyphs,
• Translate hieroglyphs into our numbers.