Topics: Starter | Arithmetic | Investigations | Number

• Mrs. Babb, 3rd & 4th Period Classes, Woodruff High School, USA
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• When we pronounce number words we include the word "and" for the decimal, not between periods of numbers, like three hundred and four.
• Transum,
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• Mrs Babb, you can find more comments about the issue you have highlighted below the October 7th starter. It appears to be a British-English, American-English difference.
• Year 5, Cheveley Park, Durham
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• We found 4 (four), 9 (nine) and 18 (eighteen) worked, we challenge you to find more! Sincerely, Year 5.
• Quite Interesting, Twitter
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• A number is called fortuitous if it is equal to the product of the lengths of the words in its spelled-out name. E.g., ‘twenty-four’ is 6 x 4 = 24, or ‘eighty four thousand six hundred seventy two’ is 6 x 4 x 8 x 3 x 7 x 7 x 3 = 84,672. (h/t @_FutilityCloset)

  — Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) March 24, 2021

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