origin of numbers? and what is number sense?

Answer 1

numbers are not deffinite values they are refferences to one another

Ex: 0 could just as easily be 1, where 2 = old 1

hope this helps

a common misconception is that the origin is "0", but as seen in history numbers have long been around before the value of true zero has been conceved and was considered a break through when the number zero was "invented"

Answer 2

i remmember once when i was in high skool. The math club was having an exhibition. I did a presentation on origin of numbers.

How it started?? Man first began counting his lifestock so at the beginning they used their fingers. But once the number of thier life stock grew greater, they resorted in marking trees to keep count of their livestock. So as they started farming and having more and more lifestock, they resorted using an ingenius system, some sort like an abascus. so as we became more civilised the systems became more advanced. The numerals we use today are base 10 and are indian numerals. In the americas the aztec and the mayans use base 20. This is beacuse they count not only with their fingers but also toes. The romas used alphabets as numbers. This is how numbers evolved. The sumerians used base 60. I dunt know why. Okay talking bout zero. Zero was used in mayan numbers with a symbol of an eye. The zero we currently use was invented in india. If you want to see how mayans and sumerians wrote thier numbers u can check this link out. I made these converters for my my exhibition. Have fun.
http://duonash.tripod.com/numbers.html

Answer 3

origin of numbers is 0

Answer 4

NUmbers are built-in to the fabric of the world. They had no "origin" as such.

No matter whether you speak English, Japanese, or Russian, or whatever, the number "3" for example, still means "one unit more than two, and one less than three"

If you are asking about numerals, then I believe that the numerals we use--1,2,3,... are arabic in origin.

Roman Numerals were written I,II,III, IV, V,VI, etc...

Answer 5

Numbers are merely definitions of quantities.

The thing that wrecked Roman Numerals was, the zero was never defined nor used.