Activity

Why?

With apologies to Shakespeare – "let me count the ways"

What numbers do we love?

birthdays

data and crime lab stats as on TV shows

cell phone numbers

addresses

happy anniversaries

milestone markers of our children

test scores

lotteries

horse races

What numbers will we hate [or dislike]?

school math

birthdays

weight

body mass index

test scores

sad anniversaries

Some numbers have been in both categories because our love or hate sometimes is dependent upon the particular number!

Numbers in cultures and religions

In some cultures our age number is assigned if we finish that year and in other cultures that age number emerged at the beginning of the year – beginning on the first day of life. And that means you age number will differ based on your culture!

In Hebrew, all letters have a very numerical equivalent each word’s number could be the total of these individual numbers – therefore words have numerical meaning as well as the literal meaning. Along with the Hebrew bible [Torah or Old Testament] carries a book called Numbers.

Particular numbers have significance according to your beliefs. Many of these are 3, 7, and 666.

Children love numbers

counting games

games

birthday candles

the quantity of cookies or presents

what their ages are

just endless reciting of numbers or counting

Teens and Adults enjoy the love-hate relationship with numbers

Whenever we so love numbers when we’re young – what happens we begin to dislike them?

Let’s move on with parents who love to talk about the terrible 2’s. Would be the 2’s so "terrible" or are we pre-programmed to believe so? And should we pass this onto our little ones in order that they start to learn that some numbers are not-so-good???

We have the amorphous "someone" who tells us that arithmetic is difficult. I not really know who started this myth but it’s a myth. Worse – we tell children that arithmetic is harder for girls compared to boys! So those numbers start to enter in the hate category.

We love to turning 13! We are teenagers! And soon we are able to drive!

We dream to get high gpa’s in college as well as on the tests that "matter." When the numbers are not what we were hoping or expecting we sad or even depressed. Yet not many of us wonder if those test numbers mean anything in the real world outside school. We assign love/hate for many years.

Along with many countries we like to reaching the legal era of driving, drinking and voting or marrying. These are good numbers and we all love them.

Unless, of course, we hate them!

Look at the numbers in your own life and rather than creating a love/hate relationship using them, think of what you mean for your requirements and why…then figure out how to love every one of them! They’re your numbers and they are generally you!

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