Maths Place Value

Ancient means very very old like 3,000 years ago. Egyptions are people from egypt.
Acient Egyptian numbers are written in pictures instead of numbers.

A image represents numbers. Short ropes show one, long ropes show 10, coil ropes show 100, flowers show 1,000 ( one thousand), A finger shows 10,000 ( ten thousand), A frog shows 100,000 ( one hundred thousand) and a god praying to the sun is 1,000,000 (one million).

Here is a number in Ancient Egyptian :



This number is 2321.