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  2. Calculation (card game) - Wikipedia

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    Calculation (also known as Broken Intervals, [1] Hopscotch [2] and Four Kings Solitaire [3]) is a solitaire card game played with a standard pack of 52 cards. [4] It is part of the Sir Tommy family of patience games. It has its origin in France, where it is known as La Plus Belle. [5]

  3. List of children's games - Wikipedia

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    A child playing tag.. This is a list of games that are played by children.Traditional children's games do not include commercial products such as board games but do include games which require props such as hopscotch or marbles (toys go in List of toys unless the toys are used in multiple games or the single game played is named after the toy; thus "jump rope" is a game, while "Jacob's ladder ...

  4. Hopscotch - Wikipedia

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    Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, [1] [2] into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. [3]

  5. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from one to twenty, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty. [3] [4] A distance of twenty yards in ancient archery and gunnery. [5] Threescore: 60 Three score (3x20) Large: 1,000 Slang for one thousand Myriad ...

  6. List of Schoolhouse Rock! episodes - Wikipedia

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    During school on a cold winter's day, a young girl's thoughts about the multiplication of 8 revolve around winter games, particularly ice skating. The video briefly explores the distributive property of multiplication/addition for multiplying 8 by numbers higher than 10, and closes by noting the numeral 8's resemblance to a sideways infinity ...

  7. Chisanbop - Wikipedia

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    36 represented in chisanbop, where four fingers and a thumb are touching the table and the rest of the digits are raised. The three fingers on the left hand represent 10+10+10 = 30; the thumb and one finger on the right hand represent 5+1=6. Counting from 1 to 20 in Chisanbop. Each finger has a value of one, while the thumb has a value of five.

  8. Skip counting - Wikipedia

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    Skip counting is a mathematics technique taught as a kind of multiplication in reform mathematics textbooks such as TERC. In older textbooks, this technique is called counting by twos (threes, fours, etc.). In skip counting by twos, a person can count to 10 by only naming every other even number: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. [1]

  9. Finger-counting - Wikipedia

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    Chinese number gestures count up to 10 but can exhibit some regional differences. In Japan, counting for oneself begins with the palm of one hand open. Like in East Slavic countries, the thumb represents number 1; the little finger is number 5. Digits are folded inwards while counting, starting with the thumb. [7] A closed palm indicates number 5.