A Number

Topics: Starter | Vocabulary

• Paul Boothroyd, Manor School and Sports College
• Friday, September 29, 2006
• "Your answer for the smallest integer with the letter "a" in it is misleading or wrong.
  
  One Hundred And One ..."
• 8S3, Kettlethorpe High School
• Wednesday, October 04, 2006
• "We also think that one hundred And one is smaller than one thousand"
• Bradley Clark, bradclark10@hotmail.com
• Wednesday, October 04, 2006
• "We believe that one hundred and one is the smallest number with an a in it."
• Mark, Manor School
• Friday, October 06, 2006
• "I have always taught students that the and is only used for decimals. One hundred and one would be 100.1. 101 would be One hundred one. This would make 1000 the correct answer."
• John and A2 maths, Milton Keynes
• Tuesday, October 10, 2006
• "We think the answer is 8 because it has an "a" in it "

 

• Debs, Bognor Regis CC
• Tuesday, October 10, 2006
• "My year 9 group also said "ate" (as did my teaching assistant.)As for One hundred AND one , the AND is a connective NOT a number. We had fun with this today and would like to see more literacy and maths starters especially since we have a lot of EAL students."
• Mr. Mauceri, Aylesford School - Sports College, Kent, UK
• Sunday, October 15, 2006
• "If "and" is not allowed in one hundred "and" one then it should not be allowed in thous"and" either!"
• Mary, Qatar
• Thursday, November 16, 2006
• "How can you say the word thousand, without the "and" at the end, it doesn't make sense...... its part of the word, I think that both can be correct in this instance, using and is perfectly acceptable, its used world wide"
• Kirsty, 8B1
• Thursday, October 04, 2007
• "Kirsty says that it is a thousand because "and" isn't a number."
• Paul Boothroyd, Whitehaven
• Tuesday, October 09, 2007
• "Just returned to this problem, and noticed the "...a word...", I must have been persuaded by my class last year."
• M. Flint and 7H, Hagley Park Sports College
• Thursday, October 11, 2007
• "We think it's 101 as 'and' is essential to the number when written down."
• Mr Macarthur,
• Wednesday, November 07, 2007
• "How about one and ten tenths?"
• Transum,
• Monday, February 25, 2008
• "Here’s a variation on this theme:
  
  Teacher: “I challenge you all to see who can come up with the most words that don’t contain the letters A, B or C in 30 seconds. Go!”
  
  Students: “Sky… Pie … Moon … Lesson… etc” [They will typically come up with around 10 words in the 30 seconds]
  
  Teacher: “Now it’s my turn. Go! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen etc” [It will be very easy for the Teacher to beat the students]"
• Mr Bannister, Garforth Community College
• Monday, October 06, 2008
• "How about two halves ?"
• Jonathan Stevens, UNBSJ
• Monday, October 06, 2008
• "101 Is "One Hundred One" There is no and... Common misconception... Therefore One Thousand is the correct answer."
• Irene, Harrow, Beijing
• Tuesday, October 07, 2008
• "A Hundred!"
• class 1P5, Holyrood Sec School Glasgow
• Tuesday, October 07, 2008
• "We at Holyrood (mrs O'hagan's class),think this is a bit of a 'scam'..in otherwords a bit of a trick question! We like 'ate' but are divided between one thousand, and one hundred and one."
• Craigdhu Primary, P6/7
• Tuesday, October 07, 2008
• "We believe that one hundred and one is the correct answer since you asked for the word with 'a' in it. "
• 11n5, Sleaford
• Tuesday, October 07, 2008
• "We've actually spent more time discussing everyone's comments rather than the answer. It was jolly good fun!"
• Mr Smith + whole lot of clever students in set 5., Derby
• Tuesday, October 07, 2008
• "It got my class thinking!
  All was sure that it was: 'One hundred AND one'
  Very good starters to get you thinking and debate about!"
• Year 7, Vale of Catmose College, Oakham
• Tuesday, October 07, 2008
• "Four in French, Quatre"
• Steve, Verdin High
• Wednesday, October 08, 2008
• "The question says "word", not "words" therefore "thousand" must be the answer as "hundred and one" is three words."
• Mr Crawshaw, St George's College, Sleaford
• Thursday, October 09, 2008
• "What about -(-1)
  "Negative, negative one""
• Mr Mirza, Colne Park High School
• Monday, October 13, 2008
• "Our answer was 'Thousand' as we felt one hundred and one connects one hundred with one which is not a value. We read 101 as one hundred one. Thanks"
• Mr Crawshaw, St George's College of Technology, Sleaford
• Wednesday, October 15, 2008
• "A young Polish student came up with the answer "dwa", which is "two" in Polish.
  This got me thinking about the cross-curricular possibilities for nthis starter.
  In French, the answer is "quatre" (4), in German "acht" (8) and in Spanish "cuatro" (4).
  Which languages give the smallest positive answer?
  Bosnian and Croatian each have "jedan" for "one". In Czech, it's "jedna"
  Slovenian (ena), Indonesian (satu), Portuguese (uma) and Basque (bat) also have words for "one" with an "a" in them.
  Finnish (kaksi) and Swedish (twa) are like Polish, having an "a" in their word for "two".
  English seems to be the only language I could find with no such number until "thousand". The next highest was Danish, which did not have a number with an "a" in it until "atten" (18)
  I have more, but fear most lost interest long ago!!"

 

• St. Mary's Year 8, Cambridge
• Thursday, October 16, 2008
• "We think that it is One hundred And one. There were lots of posibilities like one thousAnd... we think And should be allowed because the number doesn't work without it!"
• Milo, BSM Muscat Oman
• Sunday, November 02, 2008
• "we think it is most definitely 8/'ate' and so did the rest of year 15"
• Class 6C, Tamworth
• Wednesday, October 07, 2009
• "We think that a thousand is the most sensible answer."
• Mr. Gauley, Gainesville Elementary School
• Wednesday, October 07, 2009
• "One hundred and 0ne is not a correct statement. The "and" suggests a decimal point in the standard form of the number. At least that is what I have always taught my students."
• Kristin Bare, Woodhill Elementary
• Wednesday, October 07, 2009
• "And is not a number
  the proper way to say 101 is "one hundred one"
  the answer is a thousAnd."
• Jordan Hollins, Uttoxeter
• Wednesday, October 07, 2009
• "I think it is "A " because in algebra a stands for a number so A say it's A."
• A Guess, A School
• Thursday, October 08, 2009
• "It can't be 101, because on google type in "101 in words" and it comes up with one hundred one, therefore its one thousand."
• 8MaP3, Park Community School
• Thursday, October 08, 2009
• "This has produced much discussion and has provided valuable literacy input."
• Mr Walker, Baxter College
• Thursday, October 08, 2009
• "SquAre root of one?"
• Mr Ireland, 5I Maths, Balsall Common
• Thursday, October 08, 2009
• "We had a raging debate in our class about which one was correct - 101 or 1000. We'll need to put it to the vote tomorrow I think!"
• Miss Look, 5th Grade Math Class
• Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• "We believe the answer is one thousand. It can't be one hundrend and one, because and is NOT a number."
• Chris Poole, SLSSC, Exeter
• Thursday, October 07, 2010
• "Googling "hundred and one" gave me 3,260,000 hits. Googling "hundred one" gave 340,000 hits. Which may be why there's a book and film called "[The] Hundred AND one Dalmations".
  You can argue the answer is 'thousand' because you asked for 'a word', not 'words', but it's a bit weird to say that AND isn't part of the number 'hundred and one'. It just is."
• Mr Jones And 7V1, King Alfred's Wantage
• Thursday, October 07, 2010
• "We believe that it is 'One Thousand' as, although 'One Hundred and One' has an 'a' in it, the 'and' is not part of the number.
  Also in French it would be 4, or quatre."
• 9g1, Priory School, Shrewsbury
• Thursday, October 07, 2010
• "We really don't think much of the question. We like more definite answers."
• 7Y2, St Edmund Arrowsmith (wigan)
• Thursday, October 07, 2010
• "Half of our class think it is 101 and the other half think its 1000."
• Emily,
• Wednesday, November 24, 2010
• "It is a thousAnd because one hundred and one is a decimal and and is not a number."
• Brenda, California
• Thursday, December 02, 2010
• "You can't count one hundred and one, because in math "and" represents a decimal and that would not be a whole number."
• Mr Besgrove, Little Ilford School
• Wednesday, October 05, 2011
• "One hundred and one is the correct answer... Year 7 Little Ilford School, London."
• 1Q, Moffat Academy
• Thursday, October 06, 2011
• "We think 'quatre' is the answer!!"
• 7T, Dover
• Friday, October 07, 2011
• "We think that it is THOUSAND. All the class seem(!) to agree."
• 9A3, Honiton Devon
• Friday, October 07, 2011
• "We think it has to be one thousand because 'and' is not a number."
• Andrés, Colombia
• Wednesday, October 26, 2011
• "Para mi que la respuseta es 4 (cuatro).
  for me the answer is 4.
  good by."
• Teresa, Kentucky
• Friday, February 17, 2012
• "It is one thousand because one hundred one does not have the word "and" in it. It is a math misconception to use the word "and"."
• Maria, Indiana
• Monday, August 20, 2012
• "The number 101, correctly written is 'one hundred one'. there is not an 'and' so one thousand must be correct."
• Andrea, Tokyo
• Friday, August 31, 2012
• "In the UK, we generally say one hundred and one."

 

• 9ma3, Attleborough High School
• Tuesday, October 02, 2012
• "We had a vote and decided it should be thousand because when you write one hundred and one in numbers you do not wrtite the and."
• Jon Chamberlain, Sty Peter And St Pauls Primary School
• Wednesday, October 03, 2012
• "Would you write the letter 'A' when you write a thousand in numbers then?!?
  I would allow one hundred and 1 or a thousand I think! (Unless I tell my year 4 class that the word and doesn't count!)."
• 7t3, MR. DRYDEN YEAR 7, HOMEWOOD
• Wednesday, October 03, 2012
• "Cifra, zero in Italian
  shunya, zero in Hindi
  wahid , one for Arabic."
• Mr Sowler, 11-16
• Thursday, October 04, 2012
• "101 is a whole number, it just happens to require a few words to say it. In the UK it is correct to say and write it as 'one hundred and one' and it would be incorrect to say or write it as 'one hundred one.' In the US it seems the opposite is true!"
• Miss Robson And Mr Field's Year 7 Class, The Hazeley Academy
• Thursday, October 11, 2012
• "We think that if "one hundred And one" is a correct answer, "A hundred" should also be correct, and smaller, therefore the correct answer."
• Mr Shepherd, Chryston High School
• Friday, October 12, 2012
• "We took a class vote and voted that one thousand should be the correct answer. One hundred and one was too much of a trick! ( even though Mr Shepherd thought it was one hundred and one!)."
• Charles Jennings, Year 5 International, SIS @ BDNC, Vietnam
• Tuesday, October 30, 2012
• "We think it could be "A hundred."
  This is smaller than one hundred and one."

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