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Painting With Numbers - Zero to Infinity Video

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Last updated 13 March 2013, created 10 August 2009, viewed 8,536

A video on the origins of our mathematical skills suitable for KS3 and KS4. In this programme, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explains how humans have developed numbers for their mathematical needs. We learn that humans first began counting with whole numbers only, but then needed to invent others a More…s their mathematical skills increased. Marcus meets with Dr Eleanor Robson who reveals that zero, as we know it, was invented by Indian mathematicians and that it has revolutionised the way maths is done.

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KS3 / ICT / Functional skills (81)
KS3 / Maths / Algebra (3434)
KS3 / Maths / Number / Integers, powers & roots (499)
KS3 / Maths / Processes & applications / Communicating & reflecting (200)
KS4 / ICT / Functional skills (56)
KS4 / Maths / Algebra (4152)
KS4 / Maths / Functional skills (387)
KS4 / Maths / Number / Integers, powers & roots (565)
KS4 / Maths / Processes & applications / Communicating & reflecting (112)

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More Maths, but understand why classified with ICT from amfak, 10 March 2012	(report comment)	4 out of 5
Great. What's not to love about Marcus? from turtonkei, 18 May 2010	(report comment)	5 out of 5
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