Making Digits

Years K - 6

Wendy Batchelor, Ruth Court, Dione Parker, Julie Jacobs, Kingston Primary School

Investigation

  • Find out how to place yellow plugs in the red frame to make each numeral 0 to 9. The length and width of each numeral must fit within the same size rectangle.
  • Record each one on Poly Plug Paper.
  • Find out where this way of 'writing' numerals is used in your community.
Digit 2

Extensions

  • Make numerals on two boards and put them down side by side to display digital time. Two other plugs serve well as the : between hours and minutes. Can you display twenty-four hour digital time.
  • Make all the capital letters of the alphabet and record on Poly Plug Paper. Can you construct an alphabet in which all letters fit within the same size rectangle?
  • Research the Braille alphabet. Are there any characters in it which can't be made with Poly Plug? Write your initials in plug Braille?

Calculating Changes ... is a division of ... Mathematics Centre