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Four Fours
Beremiz shows how to make each of the numbers from zero to ten by combining exactly four 4s.
The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan: Ch.7: Going to Market
Brazil 4 maths – The Definitive Four Fours Answer Key
Four fours is a mathematical puzzle. The goal of four fours is to find the simplest mathematical expression for every whole number from 0 to some maximum, using only common mathematical symbols and the digit four (no other digit is allowed).
Ocho Kandelikas
by Flory Jagoda
Flory Jagoda’s popular holiday song has its roots in a Bosnian village
Hanukah linda ‘sta aki, ocho kandelas para mi,
Hanukah Linda ‘sta aki, ocho kandelas para mi.
Una kandelika, dos kandelikas, tres kandelikas, kuatro kandelikas, sintyu kandelikas, sej kandelikas, siete kandelikas, ocho kandelas para mi.
Muchas fiestas vo fazer, con alegrias, i plazer.
Muchas fiestas vo fazer, con alegrias, i plazer.
Una kandelika, dos kandelikas, tres kandelikas, kuatro kandelikas, sintyu kandelikas, sej kandelikas, siete kandelikas, ocho kandelas para mi.
Los pastelikos vo kumer, con almendrikas i la miel
Los pastelikos vo kumer, con almendrikas i la myel.
.en translation
Beautiful Chanukah is here, eight candles for me.
One candle, two candles, three candles, four candles, five candles, six candles, seven candles, eight candles for me.
Many parties will be held, with joy and with pleasure.
One candle, two candles, three candles, four candles, five candles, six candles, seven candles, eight candles for me.
We will eat pastelikos [a Sephardic delicacy] with almonds and honey.
One candle, two candles, three candles, four candles, five candles, six candles, seven candles, eight candles for me.
Un deux trois quatre
Un deux trois quatre
La grenouille veut se battre
Cinq six sept huit
Allez vous cacher bien vite
Neuf dix onze douze
La grenouille est très jalouse
Treize quatorze quinze seize
De toutes les grenouilles
Anglaises
Un deux trois
Un deux trois
Je m’en vais au bois
Quatre cinq six
Cueillir des cerises
Sept huit neuf
Dans mon panier neuf
Dix onze douze
Elles seront toutes rouges
Seven
Seven are the gates of hell
Seven are the days of the week
Seven wise men of Greece
Seven the seas that cover the earth
Seven the planets, and seven
The wonders of the world
From THE MAN WHO COUNTED by Malba Tahan
Chapter 8: SEVENTH HEAVEN
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1 2 3 Count With Me
From Fish to Infinity, by Steven Strogatz
Sesame Street: 1 2 3 Count With Me
Ernie teaches Humphrey to count at The Furry Arms hotel.
The best introduction to numbers I’ve ever seen — the clearest and funniest explanation of what they are and why we need them — appears in a “Sesame Street” video called “123 Count With Me.” Humphrey, an amiable but dim-witted fellow with pink fur and a green nose, is working the lunch shift at The Furry Arms hotel, when he takes a call from a room full of penguins. Humphrey listens carefully and then calls out their order to the kitchen: “Fish, fish, fish, fish, fish, fish.” This prompts Ernie to enlighten him about the virtues of the number six.
Children learn from this that numbers are wonderful shortcuts. Instead of saying the word “fish” exactly as many times as there are penguins, Humphrey could use the more powerful concept of “six
One was Johnny
Really Rosie
Maurice Sendak’s Really Rosie Starring the Nutshell Kids
1 was Johnny who lived by himself
2 was a rat who jumped on his shelf
3 was a cat who chased the rat
4 was a dog who came in and sat
5 was a turtle who bit the dog’s tail
6 was a monkey who brought in the mail
7 a blackbird pecked poor Johnny’s nose
8 was a tiger out selling old clothes
9 was a robber who took an old shoe
10 was a puzzle–what should Johnny do
He stood on a chair and said,
“Here’s what I’ll do-
I’ll start to count backwards
And when I am through-
If this house isn’t empty
I’ll eat all of you!!!!”
9 was the robber who left looking pale
8 was the tiger who chased him to jail
7 was the blackbird flew off to Havana
6 was the monkey who stole the banana
5 was the turtle who crawled off to bed
4 was the dog who slid home on a sled
3 was the cat who pounced on the rat
2 was the rat who left with the cat
1 was Johnny who lived by himself
And liked it like that!
Seventh Heaven
21 identical casks of wine, of which 7 full, 7 half full, and 7 empty, are to be divided among three men. Each should receive the same amount of wine and the same number of casks, without opening them.
How to do this?
Mathematical excerpts from The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan
