Ten Is a Special Number A long time ago people found their fingers were useful in counting Count your fingers Do you see why ten is an important number 4
We use ten different symbols to write numbers The symbols are 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9 But there is no separate symbol for ten 6
ten’s 1 one’s 0 or 10 We write the number ten with a one in the ten’s place and a zero in the one’s place Like this 10 7
