Experiments to do with your baby

Re:Experiments to do with your baby by DEinspanjer on Friday December 06, 2013 @02:26PM (#6863093)

Typically, kids in the USA are taught 1 - 5 the way you describe, but not taught anything further with a single hand. If they want to count to ten, they use both hands in the same manner.

There are a few other fancy ways including even binary which could let you count up to 1024 if you could keep it all in your head. :)

The ASL (American Sign Language) method I mentioned in the parent is described here: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/counting-on-numbers-in...

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Re:Experiments to do with your baby by canweriotnow on Saturday December 07, 2013 @11:33AM (#6866772)

I annoyed my teachers in elementary school demonstrating binary finger counting to 1024 when they were insisting that students stop finger counting because "you could only count to 10"

I was a precocious little shit.

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Re:Experiments to do with your baby by dllthomas on Sunday December 08, 2013 @10:32AM (#6869932)

Yeah, my dad taught me to count on my hands in binary when I was young. I tried explaining it to others but that usually broke down when I reached four...

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